Nike Sweatshops - Never say Never

[destinystarra]

Corporate greed is at the root of so much pain and suffering and this is what America embraces because every one thinks they can be rich one day too and they want to know they have that chance; but do you think the yacht you got a one in ten thousand shot of ever having, is really worth more than another's life? Apparently at Nike the CEO does and you better believe he'd throw you and your kids in a sweat shop too if he could so his kids could buy more obscenely overpriced junk they don't real

[tfa1985]

Ps I'm going to go buy five pairs of Nikes to celebrate not being a person who excepts being shit on. Yeah I feel sorry for these people but only because they are dumb.

[percy031]

@tfa1985 Honestly you are very ignorant. they work there because its the only option. Companies like nike exploit this and pay the lowest possible amount. These sweatshop workers probably don't even know what a union is, and i'm assuming thats why you make so much. I am sorry to the majority of Americans that arent close minded but you are just the typical close minded, "the world revolves around me" American that give your fellow countrymen a bad name.

[tfa1985]

@percy031 you are the closed minded person. You say that the sweatshop worker does not have a choice? this is complete bullshit. Every human on earth has a choice, we face hundreds of choices every day and most choose to be a sheep in the herd. If I was in their situation I would say F this and I would fight until I was living the life I wanted to live. These people have only given up on themselves. I make more than the average Doctor and I didn't even go to college. Why because I wanted it.

[tfa1985]

This video is bull shit. I don't see any guards hold ak 47s forcing these people to work for shit. They make it seem like these people are forced to work for 20 cents an hour. I call bill shit bull shit bull shit. The reason America is such a great country is because of people like me. I will never work for what I don't think I worth. I don't have a college degree and yet I make just about as much as the average doctor working half the hours he does. Why because I don't let myself get shit on.

[CupCakeYayx]

The song is really great if you want a positive thing???

[RichKilla86ers]

Thank u slave kids for making my Air Jordan. Yep, Nike markets specifically to spoiled materialistic suburbia kids (sneakerheads or hypebeasts) in which their mommy and daddy buy them Nike shoes. That is how Capitalism runs. The scary part about Nike consumers is most of them are not aware the exploitation inside the shoe factory.

[Wisdom909]

It is NOT the Nike which is Exploiting.....

It is the Factory Owners  and the GOVT of that Country Exploit the POOR....

for example -- INDIA, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma....

[mbmart2005]

The less $ the factory pays to employees the less $ Nike pays to the factory.

[neilix93]

Catch 22...You say you won't buy Nike anymore but if we don't then these people have no income at all...if we do, then we encourage nike to continue providing such working conditions :S

[supersidify]

to all you people that want to boycott nike, what do u think is going to happen to these people if nike goes out of business? they will be out of work n instead of earning a dime an hour day they will be earning nothing. i agree that this is exploitation of people and human rights but boycotting nike is not necessarily the way of combatting this problem.

[harbar3000]

@supersidify You read my mind and got to this video 15 hours before I did. Take away these factories and many of these people turn to begging and prostitution. Raise their wages, a noble thing to do, and local gangsters will conspire to take away the pay that is over and above the local market rate for such labour.

[TheToploaderwasher]

Those factories are BULLSHIT!

[papasniff1andonly]

@101missdramaqueen yeh no probs as soon as I find the bag that they packed my stuff in cos thats where their address and email was written on I think. anyway will let you know :)

[Cupcake99411]

This is so sad! I really wanna help! but i know i cant ITS HORRIBLE

[niningprasetya]

i don't buy nike anymore..bulshit factory

[papasniff1andonly]

there are plenty of sports wear manufacturers who dont operate sweat shops, I found a brand in europe called Element 26 who make really cool clothes, better designs than nike or adidas, sweat shop free, not made by kids and less costly than nike. I believe they are new on the sportswear scene but by the looks of their stuff will be pretty big very soon, so if your against sweat shops and exploitation check em out they are just one out of many.

[hrisyiscool]

sadly, this is the type of world we live in :/

[ZeeAbee]

where did you get the pictures?

[sadiel1]

i come from the dominican republic,and my mom use to work on one of these sweat shop factory,i dint realize how terrible this was until now.

[VGamer3d]

As I was watching I noticed I was wearing nike pants that someone handed down to me. I feel like sh*t.

[ryshh005]

am a university student..i want write a article about nike sweatshop in china..can u guys help finding the information..for example which year they move their business to china and when people find out they are running a sweatshop???its my first semester in a university so i hope u guys will help me..reply asap...thnx..:)



[Malxlika]

Good Job. People should be aware of the Mishap that happens to these poor people.

[Max16032]

It's disgusting to see rich 8-year-old kids who have never worked in their lives with $200 Nike shoes, made by poor 8-year-old kids who work all day, and are barefoot.

[juicyappleish]

@Max16032 Right. Let's ask Santa Claus to provide us with expensive modern factories with aircondditioning.

You should study economics, socialist kid

[Faqquell]

boycott nike

[rickster348]

we need more kids working in THIS country., (the U.S.).

[bareknuckle42]

Child Labor: Just Do it!

[babraham1989]

I LOVE MY NIKE SB DUNKS

[BIGCUNTnoballs]

you'll all cheer up and lap up the nike mags later this year

[texas9085]

I dont buy this over priced pieces of shit.And they give endorsemebts to over paid athlets sorry I dont like or want them that bad.Fuck this corporate pieces of shit.

[duckletshut]

its very sad -- horrible exploitation - I wrote an article in Triond about sweat shops and embedded this video in it -- thx for uploading this very important issue

[nikesweatshop]

@duckletshut no worries...what is Triond. I am a university student.

[duckletshut]

@nikesweatshop its an online writing site

[nikesweatshop]

@duckletshut no worries...what is Triond. I am a university student.

[maggieszuky]

HOW CAN I HELP??

I **WANT** TO HELP PEOPLE

[tobeedetermined]

@maggieszuky The best way to help is analyze your contribution by what you're buying and make changes then inform those around you.

[stevenblouis]

@maggieszuky buy these people some condoms,they have too many kids

[kgabomoyaga]

ilo should intervine on this matter, i 'm going to destroy all nike itermsin my hoese

[MADDOG6400]

@JmanMr360 That's right! As long as these places still exist, we're still going to go to them (you know that's not going to stop until someone actually stops them.)

[1234hanin]

i have an assignment for geography to make a similar video, but i dont noe wat program to use, did you use a slideshow please answer ASAP

xxx

[TaylerKrystyna]

HMV sucks to because they have sweat shops to. this vieo made me cry

[TaylerKrystyna]

HMV sucks to because they have sweat shops to

[ibrahimnamar]

ok like one pic was nike but the others were different things nike for life

[1234hanin]

@ibrahimnamar ummm yeh they might not be pictures specifically of nike, but yes it is a known 'fact' that nike takes advantage of people living in poverty to make their merchandise 16 hours a day straight and pay them what 20c

and yes practically ALL big brand abuse human rights, but nike is one of the worst

[MADDOG6400]

Poor kids. Well, I'm going to go to the Nike store and buy more Nike merchandise!

[IseaANarmy]

Hey, me and some of my friends are getting set to try and campaign against places such as Nike and Primark, we are secondary school kids, so obviously our age group buys lots of stuff like this. We want to raise awareness, so everybody tell all your friends about this video.

[TheLugiagirl]

How can they do that to those poor kids? I say its probably the cruelest thing in the world to do that....

[DemonKebbit]

Nike was crap in the first place :P

[pdelangel2]

Fuck Nike...

Adidas FTW

[camillerib1]

After watching this video i will never ever buy nike again..and thats why i dont want anything to do with nike....just think when you wear that shoes..who made it??????????????

[RudeViewer]

lol those kids have such little hands, makes my dri-fit shirt extra soft. Feels good man

[0s0e0a0n0100]

@RudeViewer haha, i pised myself laughing thats hilarious haha

[camillerib1]

dont buy nike..just think before you buy...

[0s0e0a0n0100]

@camillerib1 its all my family wears :D

[APEZECCHINODORO1997]

Nike fuck!!! The nike is a very horrible brand, all rights denied. Booooo!!!!

[bobmiller102]

Great video! Thanks a ton! Im going to use this for my school report!

[tr0111]

wtf? Only 15,979 views while a crappy Bieber auto-tuned music video gets millions... This is just ridiculous.

[byebyebirdie2]

Our jobs are shipped over seas so they can force children to work? this is a crime.

[bestwayusa1]

Buy American Made go on line and demand stores to give you a choice. To buy products of a decent fair honest wage to live middle class not slave wages. y

[Butterfly5969]

Excuse me while I BURN my Nike trainers!!! :L

[xxDrudgeryReportxx]

This is unregulated Capitalism at its best. While Wall Street ran our country in to the ground, we were busy worrying about the Terrorist Threat Level. Now that they have sunk our economy and we (WE!!) have bailed them out, they are demanding the government get out of their pockets and out of their board rooms. These people are not better than common criminals. They should be arrested and jailed as such.

[SaskueSucks]

The reason they hold the factories in third world countries where they can pay the workers less than 1$ per hour in because if they held them in lets say America they would have to pay each worker minumum wage, within several years they would go bankrupt.

[lookbehindtheveil]

Why are the likes of Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Kobe Bryant and other popular athletes silent? And why haven't I seen anyone in the press challenge them on this?? Maybe it's time people in LA picket Lakers games.

[Firecloud500]

@lookbehindtheveil because michael jordan gets more money just from nike's air jordans per year than every sweatshop laborer combined 

[1adormae]

Thank you for the information! and PLEASE people, share this video as much as you can!!!! Peop0le have to know the truth, adn this is the only thing that we can do, and trust me, IT WORKS!!!!

SHARE THIS VIDEO!!!!

[atomicengineer]

This video confirms why Asians in a America are so good in school, because they saw what it was like to work with no education, no skills, no hope. Power to them, is all I can say. I hope the entire word realizes the importance of a good education and the horror it is to be practically enslaved in one of these sweatshops.

[MDMPruductions]

poor kids

[dinostalino]

bottom line!!!!! IT IS CRUEL AND EVIL.... I ASK MY SELF ALL THE TIME? WHY THE WORLD HAS TO BE SO MEAN AND EVIL

[mirijuanicobanda]

I have a shirt that has a Nike sign , and under it it says CHILD LABOR in Nike font

[nigzruledisworld]

that suks

[violetparme]

what does the picture on 2:40 refers to please?

[northwesttoker]

@violetparme thank christ i wasn't the only one who noticed that.

[violetparme]

one solution would be to have the bosses and all the people who make profit that way to reduce their profit/incomes. But.. difficult to change people ...better to change YOURSELFf . Buy fair trade products (clothes , food, decorationitems). Designers are working on fashion and are doing well (organic cotton and fair working conditions ; google Ethos for example). Still difficult with shoes , I must admit! if someone here knows about ethic shoes, please send me a message.

[BachRocks95]

@violetparme There are TOMS shoes, they are canvas slip-ons, that are made ethically. {Plus, for every pair bought, TOMS sends a pair to children in need in third world countries. Thats all I know though

[violetparme]

@BachRocks95 thanks a lot for the suggest(ion. I've just had a look on their official site. They are fun shoes! might get a pair of them!

[martini9799]

yes tht really dramatic huh how sombdy can treat thi peopl like thise huh really.......th hve not big choice so going wrk there to suport famillies huh i never more will boiuy nikes huh .....

[yakooza]

This isn't only Nike. Walmart is even worse. Any product not made in the US, you can expect the workers are being payed less than a $1 an hour.

[Patignar]

but dood! teh stuff in wallmart is sooooo cheap! and half you ever put on a pair of nikes!?!?!?!?!? they so comfortable!

[yakooza]

Guess why its cheap?

[Patignar]

well i think its cheap because its from wallmart duh! dood you are not so smart

[iMusics]

Your a dumbass Rofl...

[davidcononie]

take a fucking look at it, america this is our fault, wake the fuck up,

[Patignar]

yeah im currently skating a pair of nikes and i would feeel guilty but i didn't buy them. Also, pretty much every shoe that you have purchased and are going to purchase was made in a sweatshop. Sorry, but there really is nothing you can do unless you start sewing together your own shoes.

VANS - The original skate shoe, since 66, designed in america, made in china.

all these shoe companies uphold the principal of BUFU

BUY US FUCK YOU!

[suddath1]

ROFL dude thats funny BUFU!

[yakooza]

No, abolish capitalism!

Buying US products isn't going to do much.

[zenmachinefilms]

I did advertising contract work for Nike a few years ago. This video is correct. They are like the worst excesses of Wall Street. Their goal is to make their already filthy rich CEO, board of directors and shareholders even more filthy rich.

Nike calls sweatshops "opportunity' and presents a false dilemma to support that. This isn't an either/or of either near-slave labor, or no work for these people. There are many other ways, despite what they'll tell you.

[empressofthefrench]

@zenmachinefilms Guess who makes Gucci shoes and purses? The Italian sweatshops. This damned filthy rich corporate America have no conscience. Let's put their kids in a sweat shop for a week.

[Austin25254]

@zenmachinefilms What other ways, if you force the corporations to increase wages you are increasing it beyond the price equilibrium making it inefficient and causing the corporations to move manufacturing away, like what happened to the US manufacturing industry. The workers and the Corporations are in a trade agreement that both parties agree to because both are BETTER off. How else are these people going to participate in the world economy they are not skilled.

[LEOLIYUHANG]

In fact we shoulden't blame Nike, it make much money from children. However. Nike provide work for them, if Nike do not provide job for these children, they maby go to do more hard and dangerous job. What ever, these country are so pool, the children have to work.

[senorcaliento]

the people have to know

nice video.....

[nikesweatshop]

whats ridiculous about it

[snipeit99]

this is rediculas