With many businesses making headlines nowadays, ethics is usually to blame. A particular company, Nike, has been at the center of all these headlines for many years now. They’re one of the world’s top sports clothing brands, but for years Nike have been dogged by allegations of sweatshops and child labour. Now workers making Nike’s Converse shoes at a factory in Indonesia say they are being physically and mentally abused.

According to Huffington post, workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. To make matters worse, Nike, the brand’s owner, admits that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but says there was little it could do to stop it.

Looking at this from an ethical point of view I believe it is unacceptable for this to be happening within such a huge company. By saying there is little Nike can do to stop this shows that Nike may not care for its employees as highly as they should. In a time where ethics are more important than ever there is no reason why these actions can’t be fixed.

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