On Tuesday, Dedhe Nurhasanah held an Air Jordan in Nike’s downtown Portland store. She’d seen the model before. She works at an Indonesian factory that makes it. The shoe’s price: $205. Nurhasanah’s ...
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Once a month, American labor activist Jim Keady logs into Remitly, an app for transferring money abroad, at his New Jersey home and sends $100 to a former Nike factory worker in Indonesia. Cicih ...
Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. It’s a ...
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