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Thursday 22 April, 2010

Wisconsin-Madison canceled its sports apparel contract with Nike

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Just days after the University of Wisconsin-Madison canceled its sports apparel contract with Nike kobe iv, Two workers in Honduras on labor violations of the school, they work, factory of the sub-contract works sportswear giants.
On April 9, Wisconsin became the first university to with Nike for the company's failure to address the problems at two factories that suddenly closed on January 19, 2009. The effort is part of a mounting student-led campaign to pressure administration officials to re-examine their relationship with Nike over workers' rights in Honduras. The school earned $49,000 in 2008-09 for allowing Air max 2009 to use the university logo on its clothing and products.
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The university said Nike was not doing enough to address the roughly 1,600 displaced workers in Honduras, adding that the company has failed to pay a severance of $2.2 million owed to the workers at the Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex factories, which both closed in January 2009.The factory closed shortly after the workers decided to unionize to address these inequities, according to Urquia.
Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia, who visited U-W Madison on Saturday April 17,  Air Max 180 are touring American universities to discuss their experiences as former employees at factories subcontracted by Nike.





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