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JULY 1998
Jay Leno Tonight Show, July 9: "It's so hot out I'm sweating like a 10 year old Malaysian kid in a Nike Factory." (laughter)
Swoosh! Nike tossed out of CFL
League to bar players wearing offending logo. Globe & Mail Article July 10
More controversy Around World Cup: First Nike Now Adidas
Chinese dissidents sue Adidas, urge boycott
Dissident claims Adidas soccer balls used in World Cup made by Chinese slave labour.
JUNE 1998
Asia Meltdown Affects Nike
D.J. Lim wrote twice this year asking government officials to exempt his plant from the minimum wage of Ho Chi Minh City, which administers his rural district. He said the factory lost $6.1 million in 1996 and $2.4 million in 1997.
But the South Korean manager later dropped his request to pay $40 a month after local Nike representatives worried that it could generate bad publicity. He says Nike managers did not remind him of their Code of Conduct, which requires manufacturers to pay "at least the minimum wage, or the prevailing industry wage, whichever is higher."
Sharply reduced orders from Nike, coupled with cost increases because of Asia's economic turmoil, are forcing Asian footwear factories to cut corners. Just as Nike works to repair its battered image, some plant managers try to take shortcuts that the company had promised to avoid. More.....
World Cup Soccer
Time Magazine Taking A Look Inside Nike's Factories March 30, 1998
UPDATED 20/06/98
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