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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedNIKE TO BOOST INDONESIA SHOE WORKERS PAY BY 6%.(Brief Article)
Footwear News, March, 1999 by FEITELBERG, ROSEMARY
ATHLETIC GIANT INITIATES WAGE AND BONUS PACKAGE TO EXCEED GLOBAL EXCHANGE RATE
NEW YORK -- Nike last week announced it will offer a 6 percent increase to entry-level Indonesian factory workers producing Nike footwear. The company will consider increasing minimum wages for apparel workers in the next few months, a Nike spokesman said Tuesday.
"To raise wages by 6 percent seems inadequate, but it's not to be taken lightly," said Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the National Labor Committee. "It certainly helps, but it's not something to brag about."
Medea Benjamin, co-director of Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights group, said, "It's a step in the right direction, but not enough...There is pressure on the whole...
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