Surviving the Workday

Apparently adidas employs workers in factories in China, and violates China’s labor laws as well as its own corporate standards. Violations of labor laws and corporate standards include the following:

1. Forcing workers to work more than 70 hours a week to earn minimum wage in China.

2. Cheating workers in other ways in regards to pay

3. Discriminating against male workers, who are assumed to be criminals unless they have a certificate from their hometown stating otherwise.

4. Stifling the creation of a union.

It really goes on and on, which is particularly distressing because adidas has supposedly been working on these issues along with Nike for years. adidas is a sponsor of the Olympics in Beijing with the slogan, “Nothing is Impossible.” Information on contacting adidas is available at adidas.com

This entry was posted by Ms. Theologian on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at 8:39 am and is filed under ethical consuming You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.