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Factory Workers Then and Now.

"Nike" has to be one of the most known name brands all over the world. The company sells millions of products, but who would of guessed that the factories in which those products are made are very much alike to the Triangle Factory. Nike has factories in Vietnam, Haiti, China, and many other places around the world. Nike illegally pushes their workers to work about 40 hours of overtime and pays them less than $5 an hour, which is almost the same as the Triangle Factory workers who made about six to seven dollars a week.

The working conditions are extremely bad too. In the Vietnam factories people commonly faint from exhaustion, heat, fumes, and poor nutrition, some die without medical attention after collapsing on the job, a typical 20-hr./day factory with 6000 workers has only one doctor, for 2 hrs./day, and people are fired immediately if they take sick leave.

I find these conditions horrible and I don't think people should suffer this way just because they need the money. Nike is a great company, but they shouldn't be treating workers like this especially if they have the money to pay them more.

Sites: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/nike/nikelabor.htm - By Melissa. media type="custom" key="3847973"media type="custom" key="3846873" media type="custom" key="3847067"