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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JBlood" data-source="post: 279597" data-attributes="member: 16">Nike in 1996: Nike Accused of "Slave" Child Labor   by Andreas Harsono     (AR) JAKARTA -- [SIZE=+2]An Indonesian[/SIZE] labor advocate said that American shoe maker Nike  Inc. is employing Indonesian children under 16 years old to produce  their athletic sneakers, confirming an earlier report by an American  lobbying group that the children work in sweatshops like "slaves."    Indera Nababan of the non-profit Yakoma PGI labor advocacy organization  said on Monday that the employees are paid the official minimum wage of  5,200 Indonesian rupiah (US $2.17) per day, which is "just enough to  survive to the following day to work again."    "How can you live with [$2.17] in an expensive metropolis like  Jakarta," asked Nababan, adding that Nike Inc. has more than a dozen  subcontractors in Indonesia, one of which, PT Nikomas Gemilang, based  about 100 kilometers west of Jakarta in Serang, employs child workers,  he said. (Albion Monitor June 30, 1996   (<a href="http://www.monitor.net/monitor" target="_blank">Albion Monitor</a>) So far as I can see, nothing much has changed with Nike since 1996.   Vince Lombardi's dedication to equality and fairness makes it an outrage that his name might be used by such a company to sell anything.    NO ONE should buy Nike products.  </blockquote>

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