Asfvin Pugunisparam's Blog

Recently after buying over Converse, Nike seems to be having more issues with workers abuse. The workers in Indonesia are being abused in their jobs and have no voice to complaint about it. If they were to complain , they would lose their jobs and will not be able to eat and pay for rent. Eventhough, Nike has heard all these complaints about the abuse that is faced by the workers, it is failed to stop it or at least to reduce it. It blames on the previous ownership of Converse and the contract that was signed to the contractors. Nike says that it is powerless and cannot do anything much to change the situation. What is startling is that, Nike being a giant compared  to Converse and saying that it does not have any persuasive power against them. This is the main cause for the employees to abuse their workers is because they have no teaching of business ethics. However, Nike says that they are indeed taking actions against the workers abuse as soon as possible. Nevertheless, soon seems to be something that takes a long time. One would question what is more important; the profits or the ethics conducted?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/nike-faces-new-worker-abuse-indonesia_n_896816.html