Nike keeps doing it.As punishment for failing to wear regulation shoes Regulation SHO A regulatory addition by the Securities & Exchange Commission, expanding and updating the restrictions placed on short sale transactions. The updated regulations came into effect on Jan 3, 2005 and help to address several key issues in the short sale market. , 56 women who make shoes for Nike in Vietnam were forced to run around a Nike contractor's factory premises in the hot sun. Twelve women fainted during the run and were taken to the hospital. Thuyen Nguyen, a financial analyst who visited the contractors at Nike's invitation, found that `verbal abuse verbal abuse Psychology A form of emotional abuse consisting of the use of abusive and demeaning language with a spouse, child, or elder, often by a caregiver or other person in a position of power. See Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Spousal abuse. and sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. are frequent, as is corporal punishment'. Nguyen also reports that it is common for women to faint from exhaustion, heat fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. and poor nutrition during shifts. Nike workers in Vietnam make an average of 20 cents an hour, or $1.60 per day. Source: Multinational Monitor, Vol. 8, No 4 |
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