You're trying to bring attention to a subject that needs examining but you failed miserably with this video. Newsflash: millions of companies offshore the production of goods. It's called cheap labor. Blame the countries, not the companies who utilize them.
If you're trying to draw attention to less than ideal working conditions in 3rd-world countries, you could do a lot better than this video. Showing pictures of riots, demonstrations, factories and Nike logos proves nothing. Calling teenage workers "child labor" does nothing for actual child laborers (children as young as 4 were employed in factories during the industrial revolution). Teenagers SHOULD work jobs with limited hours when they're not in school. It's good for them!
Do you know the one thing worse than seeing people working for low wages? Seeing them starving... BTW, you have to adjust the wages for local purchasing power (which means they can buy way more for a dollar than we can). You also have to consider that if Nike paid double or triple the average wage in the area, it would cause locals to quit other jobs while simultaneously raising all of the prices in the local community. Economics helps people, not good intentions alone.
NIke pays fair wages for the country they are manufacturing in. If they had factories in the US the workers would demand $20 an hour. No different than GM moving plants to Mexico what are we going to do boycott everything made in a country where cheap labour is used? If we did that then Walmart would be full of products. Just the way the world is!
This video seem to suggest that people in poor countries are poor because they work in these factories. But at least some 5 years ago in Cambodia, workers in Nike factories were earning almost as much as doctors. Without education they were able to earn almost as much as a doctor that needs to attend school for many years. So try not to cry when you tell one of the workers that they cant work there anymore. That will make the unable to afford education for their children.
they are working a regular job we are lucky but if they were paid what we are paid then imagine your own costs its an unfair world but someone has to do it they obviously survive off what they make. it's the way the world works.
@TheWelshGecko I didn't see them being forced to do anything, so I wouldn't call it slave labor. And I think they choose to work there for money, not because there slaves. That doesn't even make any sense.
Did I miss something? People actually working for a living? Bleeding heart liberals who would rather see these people do nothing and hope the government pays their way. If they didn't work for Nike, where would they work? I didn't see any guns pointed at them
@brtwebster1 If they didn't work for Nike, they'd be working on the farm that was replaced by the factory. didn't see guns pointed at them? how about being imprisoned for 12 years if they try to form a union. The CEO makes all the money for pushing numbers around while the real workers slave away for double or even triple the time the CEO puts in.. So i suppose "bleeding heart liberals" abolished afro american slavery cuz they'd rather them be sittin round doin nothin as opposed to pickin cotton
Why look up the video just to be an ass about it? I really don't think wearing a pair of nike's is worth hundreds of people being forced into slave labor. You guys can go to hell if you don't feel anything from this.
what do you need the sources. everyone knows everything is produces in asia. do you really want to say they have fair calary and good working conditions. this is how you keep the prices low, polluting the nature and paying slave salary to workers. all us, developed countries... our shame
You tried to make a video. And i see your point. But the black kid has nothing to do with sweatshops. Most brands produce theire gear in Kambodja,Thailand,China etc. And the work conditions are awfull. Its true, they work 16 hours a day and get paid extremly low. Its like slavery no doubt. Ima big fan of nike and to be hounest its a shame to buy and support that capitalist shit
Welcome to a real world buddy......like it or not...we are in the life system.......just hope its gonna change to be better soon....or later.....the most important is now...how we survive to live and developing our self to be a better person and help those who need help GOD Bless us
People who rail against "sweatshops" (that poor people CHOOSE to work in) deserve to live in a pre-industrial society. They are approval-seeking and clownish. Don't worry all the popular kids in the Media and Leftist political parties and their actor/celebrity parrots love you now. You don't go from an agricultural to an advanced society overnight. When you close these "sweatshops" you're REALLY hurting the poor forcing them to do something they chose not to when they took the sweatshop job.
They can work in the sweatshops or you can make it illegal for Nike to have their products made in sweatshops and all those workers can starve to death. What is better?
my Dad used to work up north for months at a time then spend his days off in small town Mexico.. he told me you couldn't eat a dollars worth of food in a day and a nice room was a few dollars.. a dollar is a dollar but how far it goes in different counties is a whole different thing..
It's democratic liberals like you that give others a bad name. You have no sources to support your "facts"...it's also misrepresented with visually biased material. This day and age if you want to prove a point you had better back it up with somthing more concrete and less biased or else you end up looking like a another ignorant bleeding heart. It's nice that you want to help people but dont just attack at random and do a half-assed job like you did here. Nobody will respect your view!
This video makes me LOL. No sources, no references, disparate images of unknown origin overlaid with sad music. What would be better than the sweatshops? Forcing these people back to their pre-industrial agrarian subsistence life would condemn them to frequent drought and famine and lack of access to upward mobility. If a government forces people to work in terrible conditions, that would in fact be slave labor, but there's no evidence presented here that is the case.
Yes, I'm sure these people would be MUCH better off if they didn't have those jobs. They could sit in their hovels and starve instead. Think about it: if people take these jobs, then that means that the job is the best of their possible alternatives, doesn't it?
what would these workers do if not this terrible labor? Starving? Working at the highest wages with best benefits? Hmm, i think the former is most likely.
Those poor people. We should get rid of these horrible sweat shops and subject them to the only other form of employment available to these sorts of people in their country....
wake up people and look at the video for what it is. dont read something on youtube and take it as the word of god. think of the variables and think about where this information is coming from. just because someone makes a nice slide show does not mean their facts are right. i didnt see anything in here that showed a way to check the sources. videos like this are persuasive. if you think this is just reporting the facts, think harder and dont be so gullible
i worked at a printing company in waukegan, illinois where similar mundane tasks take place all day....sorting paper and collating and making packets of organized paper and stuffing envelopes with inserts for walgreens. i did stuff like this. i also did not have a chair and the lighting looked better in these "sweatshops". these people dont look like children. when i think of child labor im thinking of 9 or 10 year olds. this does not portray that at all.
yeah, definitely propaganda. i like how there is a random picture of a little girl crying. she could have just been scolded for doing something she shouldnt have. what does a black girl have to do with asian people in a warehouse? propaganda maybe.....picture associated with pain. lets look at the factory. do you people think places like this dont exist in america.
Buying for the sake of Brand Names is foolish anyway. Its the people that wants to buy this shit that are the real problem, yet on the other hand, those kids aren't complaining and choose to work in such conditions so...Nike makes thier shit for cheap and sell it high. Honour amoung thieves is buy low sell high. Yet these kids do what they do and you guys buy what you want... Nike isn't at fault. Its the consumers and the workers. So stop bitching and enjoy your luxeries.
You can bitch about production value or the lack of sources but there is not one person in the modernized world, that is even somewhat knowledgeable, that doesn't know this stuff is happening. And our willingness to turn our heads to the practice only exacerbates it. Quit fooling yourselves. It pisses most of you off because you know it's truth and you don't want to see it, because you know you're a part of why it happens, as am I. But don't deny this as false, you're just lying to yourselves.
This video is a joke. I stopped watching after the crying baby. Get real. That baby isn't crying because it's being overworked. Completely irrelevant. Those workers are happy to have employment. Their cost of living is lower. Everyone wins.
I am divided in thoughts. On one hand, I would like to see Nike products being made in the US. However, I wonder what the people in the other countries would do without the income, if the jobs are moved. I saw a lot of old photos in the video, where the current photos had the environment looking clean. I didn't see any children working. Things just aren't always black or white.
@capricep1: No kidding-- nothing but photos of turn-of-the-century America, interspersed with photos of glum-looking waifs (who aren't even working, you'll note), with a melodramatic soundtrack that's calculated to hopefully turn on the waterworks. A manipulative propaganda piece that's not even effective as propaganda.
If you object to companies paying low wages for the unskilled labor needed to produce their products, I guess you'd be willing to pay a lot more for the same products wherein the unskilled laborers were paid higher wages, right? Right? RIGHT?
Apparently a lot of you fail to realize that in poor nations, it's a simple NECESSITY for children to work. It was a necessity for children to work in the United States, for much of its history. Do you think it would HELP these people, if their children were denied paid work?
If foreign companies don't employ them at low-skilled jobs, what would you have them do-- starve or take other unskilled "work", like prostitution?
Enjoy your crocodile tears, hypocrites & economic illiterates.
@charlottehaze: I so agree. I don't know about anyone else, but I am the oldest of 5 kids and had a single mom. I have been babysitting for money since age 11 (things were a bit different then), and working steadily since age 15. Sometimes it is just an economic necessity for kids to have to contribute to the family. I would rather see them make money by making clothing, than having to take off clothing to make money!!
Around 2000 corporations promised a rebirth of their activities, they were going to end this kind of exploitation, and do outreach into communities everywhere, and use that outreach for publicity. This never happened. Why? Why didn't we hold them accountable for their promises then? Because media controls our emotions and ambitions now. These promises were forgotten as ppl filled their lives with consumption and spectatorship.
Most ppl are not going to get the big picture, but this is it. Globalization does not have to be a bad thing. It is inevitable. However, corporate control of our lives, the true evil, was set in motion long ago, dictates not a decade but the lifespan of American lives, and most likely cannot be changed. Influences of all medias, which have control today, are tremendously underestimated. These faces will not be hidden much longer, may disgrace fall where it belongs.
it a hard topic to argue over and i dont think ANYONE can give an honest opinion while on youtube cuz we havent been there. i feel like its a countrys govt. fault for selling out its people to be exploited and also the workers who need to form a union to go againest said practices
@monkeypaw09 but the countries' governments were installed by western multi-national corporations who then take advantage of the people as wage slaves
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk ya i don't know about all that but i do know that govt. can be overthrown and committees can be formed. i'd hate to cry revolution but you see i hate to see american products being made for a fraction of the cost and being sold at sometimes 100% increase! all of us can argue for a hundred more pages and the simple fact remains over privileged under taxed greedy capitalistic corporation are the winners here.
@monkeypaw09 take this example (which is only one of many): the only way Nike is able to use child and women wage-slave labor is because the US overthrew the government of Indonesia and installed a US-controlled dictatorship. you say revolution is possible, but even if the people managed to overthrow the dictatorship (sticks/stones vs. tanks/jets), they'd still have to force the US out. you're focusing just on the overpriced products and not on the slavery and oppression
Sweatshops do pay foreign peoples enough to survive (barely) but the real issue is why dont companies pay them a little more? For godsakes they are human beings, not machines.
What you don't realize is that that job in a sweatshop is a God send for these people. The alternative for them is subsistence farming, or worse. Yes, their wages and working conditions may be abhorrent by our standards, but sweatshops have lifted millions upon millions of people in the world out of dire poverty.
I read some where that a facility was closed for employing children in Indonesia. After a few months, a news crew revisited the children that had been fired, they found that a majority that they could find had become prostitutes. So the questions is; are sweat shops better than letting children become prostitutes? I think sweat shops are horrible, and I'm not defending them in any way, but you also have to look beyond the obvious. For most of these people these jobs are the best alternative.
There is nothing wrong with sweat shops. These people choose to work in these conditions because it is better then the alternative. Without them peole are often forced to turn to prostutuion or becoming shit poor farmers again. Sweat shops are just a natural stage in the growth of a 3rd world country if we shut them down or try to force them to pay higher wages they will just move. manny sweat shop workers are glade they have their jobs. FYI i live in america and I got my 1st job in 6th grade.
There is nothing wrong with sweat shops. These people choose to work in these conditions because it is better then the alternative. Without them peole are often forced to turn to prostutuion or becoming shit poor farmers again. Sweat shops are just a natural stage in the growth of a 3rd world country if we shut them down or try to force them to pay higher wages they will just move. manny sweat shop workers are glade they have their jobs. FYI i live in america and I got my 1st job in 6th grade.
@TheEIAproductions That's only true if we force the country to demand better working conditions, but not if we demand that a company that wants to sell its products in the western world give their workers (and the workers of their suppliers) decent working conditions.
In 3rd world countries there isn't a fair relationship between buyers (the employers) and sellers (the workers). If you want a functioning market economy you have to have a somewhat equal playing field.
why nike? this could be done with all clothes manufactures.
anyone sayin, people who buy nike are this, that and the other need to think about what they are wearin, because if you think some mininmum wage brit or yank made them, you're off your fuckin' rocker. if its got made in china on it you can bet a child was involved in its manufacture.
Oppression - When you would allow somebody elses mother work for a Dollar a day but not YOUR mother.
Oppression - When it's Okay for a soldier to Rape somebody elses mother but not YOUR mother.
Oppression - When you drink Coca Cola because you LIKE it Despite knowing it robs the rural farmers of India it's community protected groundwater leaving nothing for the local community.
Oh you didn't know !!! or Dont CARE to Learn ???
YOU maybe LUCKY to be born in excess - Not in a 3rd world country.
lots of hype and not a single photograph of proof that nike's using sweat shop labor. bias much? if you're going to hype a video put some fucking proof in it, faggot.
Bankers and investors drive the corporate directions to maximize the bottomlines by squeezing the last living drop of blood out of those poor workers.
this video is ridiculous. these people choose to work in sweatshops. there is no force involved. and why do they choose to work in what we consider to be terrible conditions? because the only alternatives of scavenging, begging, and prostitution and far worse and pay far less than the sweatshops. don't cry for these people. the way to make it better is to create more opportunities for them, so that the alternatives are not worse than the sweatshops.
You simply don't understand. Children are forced to work in these factories because their families are in desperate need of money. They work to support their family, if they didn't, their family would starve, wouldn't have access to water, and wouldn't be able to pay rent. The factory owners capitalize on their desparity. The world economy has capitalized on this source of cheap labour.
@Schnikerdoodle And, therefore, the workers are better off with Nike there than without. The workers are employed willingly. If their quality of life can be improved working elsewhere, they would do it.
This is history repeating itself. Like the industrial revolutions that took place in Europe and the US, a middle class will enventually be created. It is only a matter of time before the Chinese middle class grows to a point where the people are going to demand better wages working conditions.
He's right.. It's history. Its how it balances itself. In the former manufacturing age of the USA, foreign immigrants used to be the budget workforce. The US exported goods all around the world and pretty much sold its cheap labor - this was also seen in the slave period. The 3rd world nations today are just doing what the states and other nations did a century or more ago.
These guys love there sweat shop jobs it gives them the opportunity to make a better life for their children. Stop being so negative and start loving freedom. Let these poor workers make a better life for them self's and don't get in there way!
@Prescottstud They have to work here because there is little to no money to make on the countryside; and all people need money to buy food. It doesn't mean they want to be here or they like it. It is still a violation of human rights that these people are treated so badly. If this was to happen in more 'western' countries (which is does only in secret) then it would be an outrage. Every human is worth the same so it is a sad thing.
@ElmerAwesome they are not treated poorly bud ask em and you'll see they are thankful for the jobs we gave them. Slavery is a violation of human rights these guys make shoes because they want too. Because it is better then picking trash out of a landfill. You come back to me when you have evidence of nike using slave labor then we'll talk human rights.
@Prescottstud Well 12 hour workdays just for 1 bowl of rice isn't work; it's surviving, and that's why theire happy about not staying on the countryside; where they would die.
So yes this is just slavery abroad; we don't keep slaves ourselves anymore but put them in nations far away to work for us.
looks like a factory to me...uniforms, good lighting...WTF, cant people make a living in a third word nation working in a factory like so many first work people do. What do you want to do, over inflate their wages like Americans, and fuck their false economy too?
@shblair If you think paying factory workers a living wage is the cause of America's economic woes you live in a fantasy world.
And to answer your question, NO they can't "make a living" being paid slave wages. They can't save up to send their kids to school, to start a business, to support the local economy, to pay for a doctor when they get sick -- all of the things that help a society become prosperous. They can buy a bowl of rice at the end of the day until their next 14-hour shift starts.
if they did not what to work for the money they get paid, then they would not do it. and if your going to say well they have no choice, then you could say nike are giving the an opportunity to make money thus giving then a better quality of life.
would YOU have a better quality of life with out paid work? so why do YOU think they should not have the same change as you for a better life.
@eatacake12345 You have obviously not looked into the reality of 3rd world sweat shops for even a minute. They only get paid enough to buy a bowl of rice at the end of the day and maybe send some money home once a month. They aren't getting a "better quality of life" living in a dorm or a slum in the city doing the only job they could get because they have no education. This is the situation you get when the workers have no rights -- see the "first world" circa 1800.
@zammmerjammer so its not nike that are the problem, more that nike is a solution to the problem. the problem is there no work for people in 3rd world country, thus no GDP and no growth. so they can not build school for education, no hospitals for health care etc. and yes we can give then aid, but we cant keep giving or they are never going to stand on there own two feet to use a common saying.
@eatacake12345 yes i understand the pay is low, but at the end of the day nike is a business will a target to maximize there profits and until people let businesses make abnormal profit no over business is going to move in to add competition. once there competition wage will increase work hours cut to fight of emplyees. it sounds heartless but its life.
African children? Yeah i'm sure he's crying because he has to build nikes shoe. He probably missed his tit schedule. Anyways i don't give a fuck, If you don't want to buy anything from sweatshops then you would have absolutely no swag and hardly anything to wear.
i agree Nike are a terrible company and i would never buy their products but this video is terrible, doesnt show us anything, anyone could have put it together
Sweatshops aren't even that bad anymore. Chinese wages are rising and people's living standards, particularly in manufacturing dominated areas are becoming increasingly sophisticated. To the creator of this video: please put things into perspective! Most of the people that live below the poverty line are those who live in Northern China- where there is no industry. Those living in industrial provinces in the south make up China's middle class which grows yearly in both size and purchasing power.
@TheUrbanZone Thats like saying cancer isn't that bad anymore because we have better medicine. It would be an improvement to say that these workers aren't in sweatshops at ALL but have some sort of workers rights, age limits, and normal hours. Our endless consumption drives the third world to essentially sell its own people into corporate slavery.
@gongadesh Sweatshops are the best alternative for these poor workers - the alternatives are things like prostitution and lower wage, worse condition jobs. Worker's "rights", age limits, "normal" hours - these are all things that can only exist in an advanced economy, where competition between wealthy companies and more limited supplies of labor drive up wage offers to workers. Please watch this video to understand the economic benefits sweatshops create for these poor: /watch?v=O2sW2wt3nLU
ok lets take the jobs away and give them to other countries
lets see how bad they have it then, get in the unemployment line china its costing american businesses too much to do business with you anymore because of oil prices
time to put america back to work, CHINESE JUNK!!!!
@seven5teen okay first off theres a crying baby that looks like shes in AFRICA, and some of these PHOTOS dont look like nike shop employees. Also, the factory facilities are owned by a Taiwanese and South Korean companies that work under a contract from nike. its not nike fault. although this does need to change.
One thing that bothers me about Nike is that their stupid logo was all over the Olympic Athlete's choths right on the colour so you could see if whenever they showed an athlete. Since when did the US vote Nike as the official product of the US Olympic team. I think something like USA should be on their colour and not a fucking logo to some shitty company who promote slave labor. It really makes our country look stupid.
nike might exploit these people but would you rather they starve to death or they work and be able to feed themselves and their families even if they only get a little bit of money. death-people alive.........choose
I always hated that fucking company. I bought their sneakers when I was a kid because there was so much peer pressure to be in style but they fell apart within a month and they were the least comfortable shoes I've ever had. My Converse sneakers would last for years at a fraction of the cost.
@JusticeCN I was talking about my experience in 1980 when Nike hadn't been out that long. I recently had to buy some sneakers and I tried a few Nike pairs which hurt my knee when I walked. I ended up getting New Balance and they were decent. I don't know how they survive with the junk they put out
Globalisation, and the greed of multy companies does the same in every country... Even in Hungary regardless that we ar in the middle of Europe, even being a member of the European Union. A CNC lathe operator can earn about 269USD a month. To have a comparison bread costs 1.5 USD, Diesel costs 1.7USD. I doesn't have a wife, nor children, leaving alone, have a 30 square meter flat and a 6 years old 1.3 diesel car. I have to work 10-15 hours a day, 5 days a week to get to zero, plus xtra to live.
if this type of stuff wasnt going on. then all of those people would have no work. if nike payed them more, then they would have to charge u triple the price. they would then go bankrupt or if someone were to shut nike down how many people do you think would be out of work in north america? the iphone as well and alot of other things. dont you people realize, that its not just buying a pair of nikes. its your entire life style. there must be poor people in the world so that others can live rich.
Buy used clothing and handy me downs for my family.. That's how we help the planet and humanity. After my kids outgrow, we pass it on to another family. Sharing is caring..
Don't buy the cheap wllmart-kmrt stuff either! All made in sweat-shops!!!
it costs Nike about $17 to make a pair of their sneakers, they'll turn around and sell it to you for $150. This is why I don't buy Nike, that fucking swoosh symbol ain't worth that kind of money...
If those shops close... where would those people work then? When those people get interviewed, they frequently shake their heads about anti-sweatshop protests in first world countries. And usually the wages in those shops are above average.
unions are NOT the answer. That only makes things worse. the union bosses get rich, not the workers. Then alot of companies will close up & move elsewhere
@turfguy87 Then tell me why my husband makes a good living wage when he is a common journeymen electrician? He could have been a foreman years ago, but we felt we had a good enough income and he didn't want to put up with the extra stress. Who today can make a decision like that who is not in a union?
You're trying to bring attention to a subject that needs examining but you failed miserably with this video. Newsflash: millions of companies offshore the production of goods. It's called cheap labor. Blame the countries, not the companies who utilize them.
grecoberg 3 hours ago
Nice work, production costs in cents, product cost in store in hundreds of dollars, quality of products - sub-standard.
Brain320 13 hours ago
euuuh anyway even if this was a nike production facility these people are not forced to work there. Nike does not force them with guns.
MrLecam21 14 hours ago
@MrLecam21 yes some people forget to realize that working in "Seat Shops" is better than not working at all.. or worse...crime... Just my two cents
rdc1783 6 hours ago
If you're trying to draw attention to less than ideal working conditions in 3rd-world countries, you could do a lot better than this video. Showing pictures of riots, demonstrations, factories and Nike logos proves nothing. Calling teenage workers "child labor" does nothing for actual child laborers (children as young as 4 were employed in factories during the industrial revolution). Teenagers SHOULD work jobs with limited hours when they're not in school. It's good for them!
ccoraxfan 19 hours ago
Do you know the one thing worse than seeing people working for low wages? Seeing them starving... BTW, you have to adjust the wages for local purchasing power (which means they can buy way more for a dollar than we can). You also have to consider that if Nike paid double or triple the average wage in the area, it would cause locals to quit other jobs while simultaneously raising all of the prices in the local community. Economics helps people, not good intentions alone.
rightwingliberal1 19 hours ago
It's call Sony Vegas kid (Keygen Of Course) 10 year olds use WMM
ZerkPureFTW 23 hours ago
NIke pays fair wages for the country they are manufacturing in. If they had factories in the US the workers would demand $20 an hour. No different than GM moving plants to Mexico what are we going to do boycott everything made in a country where cheap labour is used? If we did that then Walmart would be full of products. Just the way the world is!
MrLeafs007 23 hours ago
This video seem to suggest that people in poor countries are poor because they work in these factories. But at least some 5 years ago in Cambodia, workers in Nike factories were earning almost as much as doctors. Without education they were able to earn almost as much as a doctor that needs to attend school for many years. So try not to cry when you tell one of the workers that they cant work there anymore. That will make the unable to afford education for their children.
Warzoooooo 1 day ago 4
let's boycott nike and see where these kids end up...
(sarcasm)
UltraProle21 1 day ago
People like you who make these kind of videos are the worst thing for the fight against child labor and population explotation.
This video is a disgrace and and insult to the kids who are actually working for long hours in horrible conditions for next to nothing wages.
stolas666 1 day ago
Looks like normal factories and some random kids and not related protests. Whiny pussy ass faggots better get a job instead of making stupid videos!
levon606 1 day ago
You definitely reached the objective, because you didn't impress me.
BoxingCombatant 1 day ago
boycott nike? that will certainly help the workers..lol
pawlo881012 1 day ago
Boycott NIKE? then what? are you gonna give them a job when NIKE close down? what are they supposed to do then? (this is just a question)
axlerate99 1 day ago
@axlerate99 so than do you want to support slavery by putting more money in the pockets of the slave owners? (this is just a question)
fourtytil5 1 day ago
@fourtytil5 I don't support slavery but, Do you have proof that they are slaves? were they forced to work there?
axlerate99 1 day ago
This video was basically made by someone who dislikes Nike and wants you to also. They don't want to be mainstream.
44Emster44 1 day ago
pictures u r showing are of what??? come on give me a break they r not forced to work there. they want to work u douche bag maker of this video.
saverio1e 2 days ago
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nike doesnt hire people under 18 to make shoes in Many countries where child labor ethics are consistently violated.
this is true- thumbs up if you discover this and wish to validate this statement further.
PS many people would love to do that sh*t all day for a price that is right to them.
TheSportsbot 2 days ago
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TheSportsbot 2 days ago
Fuck this video, not relevent
AllForKicks 2 days ago
anything you buy from kmart wallmart target is no different
sxcsassybratzy 2 days ago
they are working a regular job we are lucky but if they were paid what we are paid then imagine your own costs its an unfair world but someone has to do it they obviously survive off what they make. it's the way the world works.
sxcsassybratzy 2 days ago
bro im fkn cried
walmartian 2 days ago
@TheWelshGecko I didn't see them being forced to do anything, so I wouldn't call it slave labor. And I think they choose to work there for money, not because there slaves. That doesn't even make any sense.
starwarsisfunny 3 days ago
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yes i will try not to cry
fivequotes 3 days ago
745 people are heartless bastards!
tonymonism 4 days ago
Did I miss something? People actually working for a living? Bleeding heart liberals who would rather see these people do nothing and hope the government pays their way. If they didn't work for Nike, where would they work? I didn't see any guns pointed at them
brtwebster1 4 days ago 2
@brtwebster1 If they didn't work for Nike, they'd be working on the farm that was replaced by the factory. didn't see guns pointed at them? how about being imprisoned for 12 years if they try to form a union. The CEO makes all the money for pushing numbers around while the real workers slave away for double or even triple the time the CEO puts in.. So i suppose "bleeding heart liberals" abolished afro american slavery cuz they'd rather them be sittin round doin nothin as opposed to pickin cotton
rycan84 2 days ago
Why look up the video just to be an ass about it? I really don't think wearing a pair of nike's is worth hundreds of people being forced into slave labor. You guys can go to hell if you don't feel anything from this.
TheWelshGecko 4 days ago
So you know where they are and did not spray them with bullets? you asshole
Vatoway3 4 days ago
what do you need the sources. everyone knows everything is produces in asia. do you really want to say they have fair calary and good working conditions. this is how you keep the prices low, polluting the nature and paying slave salary to workers. all us, developed countries... our shame
TheTripstraps 5 days ago
You tried to make a video. And i see your point. But the black kid has nothing to do with sweatshops. Most brands produce theire gear in Kambodja,Thailand,China etc. And the work conditions are awfull. Its true, they work 16 hours a day and get paid extremly low. Its like slavery no doubt. Ima big fan of nike and to be hounest its a shame to buy and support that capitalist shit
PeriferiaSud90 5 days ago
Well at least they got a job unlike the scrounging arseholes in the UK
FreeJo77 6 days ago
And next time don't make a defect on my shoes...... you hear
JOKING JOKING if this is really true i kinda feel bad
DerrickFeeters99 6 days ago
what does a black kid in the grass have anything to do with this ...your an idiotic tool for making this video
TheGuille77 6 days ago 4
the pictures in color are what a normal fucking factory is supposed to look like
poopascoopaloop 6 days ago
Yawn* I love my Nike shoes
Nered88 1 week ago
Welcome to a real world buddy......like it or not...we are in the life system.......just hope its gonna change to be better soon....or later.....the most important is now...how we survive to live and developing our self to be a better person and help those who need help GOD Bless us
Jaringan2 1 week ago
Useless twat
geir44 1 week ago
Ok this video is awful. you have pics from the early 1900s when nike was created in the 60s. get your facts straight. Oh that songs sucks d
MrCamelizer 1 week ago
Kiss my ass Fidel!!!!!! NIKE IS ART STREET... IS POP ART...
elCLORONE 1 week ago
People who rail against "sweatshops" (that poor people CHOOSE to work in) deserve to live in a pre-industrial society. They are approval-seeking and clownish. Don't worry all the popular kids in the Media and Leftist political parties and their actor/celebrity parrots love you now. You don't go from an agricultural to an advanced society overnight. When you close these "sweatshops" you're REALLY hurting the poor forcing them to do something they chose not to when they took the sweatshop job.
jabrone1975 1 week ago
Nike never made a shoe or anything else.
What they do is they give a design to a sub contractor often who ever offers the lowest bid to manufacture their product.
The cheapest no name shoes are often manufactured on the same line as Nike's.
Membrane556 1 week ago
stupid patched video. moron
megayonosenada 1 week ago
this is pointless, show a real nike factory
TheMoralitos93 1 week ago
So? What do you these countries were like BEFORE? Garden of Eden?
oracle2world 1 week ago
They can work in the sweatshops or you can make it illegal for Nike to have their products made in sweatshops and all those workers can starve to death. What is better?
Arcturistheballer 1 week ago
future america...
and that didnt look like a foot ball
wades623 1 week ago
my Dad used to work up north for months at a time then spend his days off in small town Mexico.. he told me you couldn't eat a dollars worth of food in a day and a nice room was a few dollars.. a dollar is a dollar but how far it goes in different counties is a whole different thing..
MrMeanderthal 1 week ago
JUST DO IT
TheHockeygoalie24 1 week ago
I didn't cry. what do I win?
huntercannon2 1 week ago
It's democratic liberals like you that give others a bad name. You have no sources to support your "facts"...it's also misrepresented with visually biased material. This day and age if you want to prove a point you had better back it up with somthing more concrete and less biased or else you end up looking like a another ignorant bleeding heart. It's nice that you want to help people but dont just attack at random and do a half-assed job like you did here. Nobody will respect your view!
zakariah32583 1 week ago
This video makes me LOL. No sources, no references, disparate images of unknown origin overlaid with sad music. What would be better than the sweatshops? Forcing these people back to their pre-industrial agrarian subsistence life would condemn them to frequent drought and famine and lack of access to upward mobility. If a government forces people to work in terrible conditions, that would in fact be slave labor, but there's no evidence presented here that is the case.
roman883 1 week ago
Yes, I'm sure these people would be MUCH better off if they didn't have those jobs. They could sit in their hovels and starve instead. Think about it: if people take these jobs, then that means that the job is the best of their possible alternatives, doesn't it?
Anschutzhammerlitoz 1 week ago
@Anschutzhammerlitoz @zwiiyt
How about START paying them a lousy ridiculous $5 a day, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day?
Ever thought of that possibility?
vonniihad 1 week ago
I saw them making clothes and some of the pictures were from early 1900's..... shitty video
LilChaggz 1 week ago
what would these workers do if not this terrible labor? Starving? Working at the highest wages with best benefits? Hmm, i think the former is most likely.
zwiiyt 1 week ago
Those poor people. We should get rid of these horrible sweat shops and subject them to the only other form of employment available to these sorts of people in their country....
prostitution. :/
vjm3 1 week ago
wake up people and look at the video for what it is. dont read something on youtube and take it as the word of god. think of the variables and think about where this information is coming from. just because someone makes a nice slide show does not mean their facts are right. i didnt see anything in here that showed a way to check the sources. videos like this are persuasive. if you think this is just reporting the facts, think harder and dont be so gullible
metellusarkon 1 week ago
i worked at a printing company in waukegan, illinois where similar mundane tasks take place all day....sorting paper and collating and making packets of organized paper and stuffing envelopes with inserts for walgreens. i did stuff like this. i also did not have a chair and the lighting looked better in these "sweatshops". these people dont look like children. when i think of child labor im thinking of 9 or 10 year olds. this does not portray that at all.
metellusarkon 1 week ago
yeah, definitely propaganda. i like how there is a random picture of a little girl crying. she could have just been scolded for doing something she shouldnt have. what does a black girl have to do with asian people in a warehouse? propaganda maybe.....picture associated with pain. lets look at the factory. do you people think places like this dont exist in america.
metellusarkon 1 week ago
Buying for the sake of Brand Names is foolish anyway. Its the people that wants to buy this shit that are the real problem, yet on the other hand, those kids aren't complaining and choose to work in such conditions so...Nike makes thier shit for cheap and sell it high. Honour amoung thieves is buy low sell high. Yet these kids do what they do and you guys buy what you want... Nike isn't at fault. Its the consumers and the workers. So stop bitching and enjoy your luxeries.
AstroMen2911 1 week ago
You can bitch about production value or the lack of sources but there is not one person in the modernized world, that is even somewhat knowledgeable, that doesn't know this stuff is happening. And our willingness to turn our heads to the practice only exacerbates it. Quit fooling yourselves. It pisses most of you off because you know it's truth and you don't want to see it, because you know you're a part of why it happens, as am I. But don't deny this as false, you're just lying to yourselves.
phattvids 1 week ago
What a crappy piece of left-wing propaganda this video is.
smitty195 1 week ago
This video is a joke. I stopped watching after the crying baby. Get real. That baby isn't crying because it's being overworked. Completely irrelevant. Those workers are happy to have employment. Their cost of living is lower. Everyone wins.
jacobgotime 1 week ago
Someone has to make my sneakers might as well be them.
Da808Boii 1 week ago
JUST DONT DO IT.
BABABOOBZ 1 week ago
I wonder if I am get cheap kicks there....
agentshep23 1 week ago
A jobs a job ..
dcskinx 1 week ago
little pay is better than none...
fckingwalkingparad0x 1 week ago
@fckingwalkingparad0x some rights and respect are better than none
shallnoTfear 1 week ago
I have no idea how this video represents Nike sweatshops?
TheGreatToopi 1 week ago 30
@TheGreatToopi
COINCIDO TOTALMENTE!! LO HABRA HECHO ADIDAS, TOPPER U OTRA MARCA????
Erconst1 1 day ago
NO SOURCES. DIDN'T WATCH.
toothyp1cks 1 week ago 40
It dont even matter Nike Always beats Adidas...;p
zamir2014 1 week ago
When I buy some nikes that I want, best believe that im appreciative to everyone who helped make them.
68chino83 1 week ago
they look like happy productive workers :D
PS3videos95 2 weeks ago
They made my kicks!
saintt27 2 weeks ago
@saintt27 Mine too!
BrofessionaI 2 weeks ago
I am divided in thoughts. On one hand, I would like to see Nike products being made in the US. However, I wonder what the people in the other countries would do without the income, if the jobs are moved. I saw a lot of old photos in the video, where the current photos had the environment looking clean. I didn't see any children working. Things just aren't always black or white.
capricep1 2 weeks ago
@capricep1: No kidding-- nothing but photos of turn-of-the-century America, interspersed with photos of glum-looking waifs (who aren't even working, you'll note), with a melodramatic soundtrack that's calculated to hopefully turn on the waterworks. A manipulative propaganda piece that's not even effective as propaganda.
charlottehaze 2 weeks ago
If you object to companies paying low wages for the unskilled labor needed to produce their products, I guess you'd be willing to pay a lot more for the same products wherein the unskilled laborers were paid higher wages, right? Right? RIGHT?
I didn't think so.
Hypocrites.
charlottehaze 2 weeks ago
Apparently a lot of you fail to realize that in poor nations, it's a simple NECESSITY for children to work. It was a necessity for children to work in the United States, for much of its history. Do you think it would HELP these people, if their children were denied paid work?
If foreign companies don't employ them at low-skilled jobs, what would you have them do-- starve or take other unskilled "work", like prostitution?
Enjoy your crocodile tears, hypocrites & economic illiterates.
charlottehaze 2 weeks ago
@charlottehaze: I so agree. I don't know about anyone else, but I am the oldest of 5 kids and had a single mom. I have been babysitting for money since age 11 (things were a bit different then), and working steadily since age 15. Sometimes it is just an economic necessity for kids to have to contribute to the family. I would rather see them make money by making clothing, than having to take off clothing to make money!!
capricep1 2 weeks ago
Lmfao.. All women
#Swaag
7THSTWB 2 weeks ago
I used this yesterday for my citizenship assessment. It left everybody in tears. This needs to stop.
sexystyless 2 weeks ago
Around 2000 corporations promised a rebirth of their activities, they were going to end this kind of exploitation, and do outreach into communities everywhere, and use that outreach for publicity. This never happened. Why? Why didn't we hold them accountable for their promises then? Because media controls our emotions and ambitions now. These promises were forgotten as ppl filled their lives with consumption and spectatorship.
KathEase 2 weeks ago
Most ppl are not going to get the big picture, but this is it. Globalization does not have to be a bad thing. It is inevitable. However, corporate control of our lives, the true evil, was set in motion long ago, dictates not a decade but the lifespan of American lives, and most likely cannot be changed. Influences of all medias, which have control today, are tremendously underestimated. These faces will not be hidden much longer, may disgrace fall where it belongs.
KathEase 2 weeks ago
it a hard topic to argue over and i dont think ANYONE can give an honest opinion while on youtube cuz we havent been there. i feel like its a countrys govt. fault for selling out its people to be exploited and also the workers who need to form a union to go againest said practices
monkeypaw09 2 weeks ago
@monkeypaw09 but the countries' governments were installed by western multi-national corporations who then take advantage of the people as wage slaves
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 2 weeks ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk ya i don't know about all that but i do know that govt. can be overthrown and committees can be formed. i'd hate to cry revolution but you see i hate to see american products being made for a fraction of the cost and being sold at sometimes 100% increase! all of us can argue for a hundred more pages and the simple fact remains over privileged under taxed greedy capitalistic corporation are the winners here.
monkeypaw09 1 week ago
@monkeypaw09 take this example (which is only one of many): the only way Nike is able to use child and women wage-slave labor is because the US overthrew the government of Indonesia and installed a US-controlled dictatorship. you say revolution is possible, but even if the people managed to overthrow the dictatorship (sticks/stones vs. tanks/jets), they'd still have to force the US out. you're focusing just on the overpriced products and not on the slavery and oppression
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
Sweatshops do pay foreign peoples enough to survive (barely) but the real issue is why dont companies pay them a little more? For godsakes they are human beings, not machines.
Salsa23PR 2 weeks ago
What you don't realize is that that job in a sweatshop is a God send for these people. The alternative for them is subsistence farming, or worse. Yes, their wages and working conditions may be abhorrent by our standards, but sweatshops have lifted millions upon millions of people in the world out of dire poverty.
JaysGOP 2 weeks ago
I read some where that a facility was closed for employing children in Indonesia. After a few months, a news crew revisited the children that had been fired, they found that a majority that they could find had become prostitutes. So the questions is; are sweat shops better than letting children become prostitutes? I think sweat shops are horrible, and I'm not defending them in any way, but you also have to look beyond the obvious. For most of these people these jobs are the best alternative.
aseredy 2 weeks ago
@aseredy you sure sound like your defending them
monkeypaw09 2 weeks ago
There's a Wikipedia entry on Red Herring fallacies now.
See the article on "List of fallacies" to see how many you can pick up in this video.
Schizotypals love them... lots of Schizotypals on youtube... not being productive in any way...
CohanDigitmatta 2 weeks ago
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There is nothing wrong with sweat shops. These people choose to work in these conditions because it is better then the alternative. Without them peole are often forced to turn to prostutuion or becoming shit poor farmers again. Sweat shops are just a natural stage in the growth of a 3rd world country if we shut them down or try to force them to pay higher wages they will just move. manny sweat shop workers are glade they have their jobs. FYI i live in america and I got my 1st job in 6th grade.
TheEIAproductions 2 weeks ago
There is nothing wrong with sweat shops. These people choose to work in these conditions because it is better then the alternative. Without them peole are often forced to turn to prostutuion or becoming shit poor farmers again. Sweat shops are just a natural stage in the growth of a 3rd world country if we shut them down or try to force them to pay higher wages they will just move. manny sweat shop workers are glade they have their jobs. FYI i live in america and I got my 1st job in 6th grade.
TheEIAproductions 2 weeks ago
@TheEIAproductions That's only true if we force the country to demand better working conditions, but not if we demand that a company that wants to sell its products in the western world give their workers (and the workers of their suppliers) decent working conditions.
In 3rd world countries there isn't a fair relationship between buyers (the employers) and sellers (the workers). If you want a functioning market economy you have to have a somewhat equal playing field.
Hedning1390 2 weeks ago
why nike? this could be done with all clothes manufactures.
anyone sayin, people who buy nike are this, that and the other need to think about what they are wearin, because if you think some mininmum wage brit or yank made them, you're off your fuckin' rocker. if its got made in china on it you can bet a child was involved in its manufacture.
MinistryofWeed 2 weeks ago 2
Oppression - When you would allow somebody elses mother work for a Dollar a day but not YOUR mother.
Oppression - When it's Okay for a soldier to Rape somebody elses mother but not YOUR mother.
Oppression - When you drink Coca Cola because you LIKE it Despite knowing it robs the rural farmers of India it's community protected groundwater leaving nothing for the local community.
Oh you didn't know !!! or Dont CARE to Learn ???
YOU maybe LUCKY to be born in excess - Not in a 3rd world country.
trulybeautiful786 2 weeks ago
lots of hype and not a single photograph of proof that nike's using sweat shop labor. bias much? if you're going to hype a video put some fucking proof in it, faggot.
itsumonihon 2 weeks ago
Bankers and investors drive the corporate directions to maximize the bottomlines by squeezing the last living drop of blood out of those poor workers.
giantyogurt 2 weeks ago
this video is ridiculous. these people choose to work in sweatshops. there is no force involved. and why do they choose to work in what we consider to be terrible conditions? because the only alternatives of scavenging, begging, and prostitution and far worse and pay far less than the sweatshops. don't cry for these people. the way to make it better is to create more opportunities for them, so that the alternatives are not worse than the sweatshops.
JewCrew4Dubstep 2 weeks ago
@JewCrew4Dubstep
You simply don't understand. Children are forced to work in these factories because their families are in desperate need of money. They work to support their family, if they didn't, their family would starve, wouldn't have access to water, and wouldn't be able to pay rent. The factory owners capitalize on their desparity. The world economy has capitalized on this source of cheap labour.
Schnikerdoodle 2 weeks ago
@Schnikerdoodle And, therefore, the workers are better off with Nike there than without. The workers are employed willingly. If their quality of life can be improved working elsewhere, they would do it.
EconGuy89 2 weeks ago
@EconGuy89
This is history repeating itself. Like the industrial revolutions that took place in Europe and the US, a middle class will enventually be created. It is only a matter of time before the Chinese middle class grows to a point where the people are going to demand better wages working conditions.
Schnikerdoodle 2 weeks ago
@Schnikerdoodle
He's right.. It's history. Its how it balances itself. In the former manufacturing age of the USA, foreign immigrants used to be the budget workforce. The US exported goods all around the world and pretty much sold its cheap labor - this was also seen in the slave period. The 3rd world nations today are just doing what the states and other nations did a century or more ago.
RascalKyng 2 weeks ago
@RascalKyng so your saying that slavery is a good thing?
monkeypaw09 2 weeks ago
@Schnikerdoodle you must not have a manual labor job ....
monkeypaw09 2 weeks ago
fucking basterds having all those peaple work every day fot a dollar and then they sell the shoes from 50 to 200 dollars.
tooshortbullys 2 weeks ago
@tooshortbullys when you factory in production costs shipping r&d engineering etc they get a fair piece of the pie and there grateful
Prescottstud 2 weeks ago
These guys love there sweat shop jobs it gives them the opportunity to make a better life for their children. Stop being so negative and start loving freedom. Let these poor workers make a better life for them self's and don't get in there way!
Prescottstud 2 weeks ago
@Prescottstud They have to work here because there is little to no money to make on the countryside; and all people need money to buy food. It doesn't mean they want to be here or they like it. It is still a violation of human rights that these people are treated so badly. If this was to happen in more 'western' countries (which is does only in secret) then it would be an outrage. Every human is worth the same so it is a sad thing.
ElmerAwesome 2 weeks ago
@ElmerAwesome they are not treated poorly bud ask em and you'll see they are thankful for the jobs we gave them. Slavery is a violation of human rights these guys make shoes because they want too. Because it is better then picking trash out of a landfill. You come back to me when you have evidence of nike using slave labor then we'll talk human rights.
Prescottstud 2 weeks ago
@Prescottstud Well 12 hour workdays just for 1 bowl of rice isn't work; it's surviving, and that's why theire happy about not staying on the countryside; where they would die.
So yes this is just slavery abroad; we don't keep slaves ourselves anymore but put them in nations far away to work for us.
ElmerAwesome 2 weeks ago
A majority of the clothes peolpe around the world today are made in sweatshops and all those pictures looked nothing like the real ones anyway
IMAcleanURclock 2 weeks ago
WELL glad i make my own stuff lol
IamZead 2 weeks ago
looks like a factory to me...uniforms, good lighting...WTF, cant people make a living in a third word nation working in a factory like so many first work people do. What do you want to do, over inflate their wages like Americans, and fuck their false economy too?
shblair 2 weeks ago
@shblair If you think paying factory workers a living wage is the cause of America's economic woes you live in a fantasy world.
And to answer your question, NO they can't "make a living" being paid slave wages. They can't save up to send their kids to school, to start a business, to support the local economy, to pay for a doctor when they get sick -- all of the things that help a society become prosperous. They can buy a bowl of rice at the end of the day until their next 14-hour shift starts.
zammmerjammer 2 weeks ago
if they did not what to work for the money they get paid, then they would not do it. and if your going to say well they have no choice, then you could say nike are giving the an opportunity to make money thus giving then a better quality of life.
would YOU have a better quality of life with out paid work? so why do YOU think they should not have the same change as you for a better life.
eatacake12345 2 weeks ago
@eatacake12345 You have obviously not looked into the reality of 3rd world sweat shops for even a minute. They only get paid enough to buy a bowl of rice at the end of the day and maybe send some money home once a month. They aren't getting a "better quality of life" living in a dorm or a slum in the city doing the only job they could get because they have no education. This is the situation you get when the workers have no rights -- see the "first world" circa 1800.
zammmerjammer 2 weeks ago
@zammmerjammer so its not nike that are the problem, more that nike is a solution to the problem. the problem is there no work for people in 3rd world country, thus no GDP and no growth. so they can not build school for education, no hospitals for health care etc. and yes we can give then aid, but we cant keep giving or they are never going to stand on there own two feet to use a common saying.
eatacake12345 2 weeks ago
@eatacake12345 yes i understand the pay is low, but at the end of the day nike is a business will a target to maximize there profits and until people let businesses make abnormal profit no over business is going to move in to add competition. once there competition wage will increase work hours cut to fight of emplyees. it sounds heartless but its life.
eatacake12345 2 weeks ago
@zammmerjammer how much does a bowl of rice cost in india? A dollar a day is not that bad if a bowl of rice is a nickel buddy
Prescottstud 2 weeks ago
African children? Yeah i'm sure he's crying because he has to build nikes shoe. He probably missed his tit schedule. Anyways i don't give a fuck, If you don't want to buy anything from sweatshops then you would have absolutely no swag and hardly anything to wear.
DutchyVlogss 2 weeks ago
I just ordered some Nike shoes about 1 1/2 hours ago from zappos. Sorry guys :'(
3USRNAM3 2 weeks ago
i agree Nike are a terrible company and i would never buy their products but this video is terrible, doesnt show us anything, anyone could have put it together
mycatscalledmolly 2 weeks ago
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mycatscalledmolly 2 weeks ago
Sweatshops aren't even that bad anymore. Chinese wages are rising and people's living standards, particularly in manufacturing dominated areas are becoming increasingly sophisticated. To the creator of this video: please put things into perspective! Most of the people that live below the poverty line are those who live in Northern China- where there is no industry. Those living in industrial provinces in the south make up China's middle class which grows yearly in both size and purchasing power.
TheUrbanZone 2 weeks ago
@TheUrbanZone Thats like saying cancer isn't that bad anymore because we have better medicine. It would be an improvement to say that these workers aren't in sweatshops at ALL but have some sort of workers rights, age limits, and normal hours. Our endless consumption drives the third world to essentially sell its own people into corporate slavery.
gongadesh 2 weeks ago
@gongadesh Sweatshops are the best alternative for these poor workers - the alternatives are things like prostitution and lower wage, worse condition jobs. Worker's "rights", age limits, "normal" hours - these are all things that can only exist in an advanced economy, where competition between wealthy companies and more limited supplies of labor drive up wage offers to workers. Please watch this video to understand the economic benefits sweatshops create for these poor: /watch?v=O2sW2wt3nLU
mtanousable 2 weeks ago
if they are underpaid at their job they should probably quit.
204sparky 2 weeks ago
@204sparky dumbass
mycatscalledmolly 2 weeks ago
Where else are they gonna work? Exactly they can quit at any time. I love Nike, and I support it
ZackQuack 2 weeks ago
These factories are in the most populated countries in the world theres nothing wrong with them working, but the conditions and pay should improve.
elferOPP 2 weeks ago
ok lets take the jobs away and give them to other countries
lets see how bad they have it then, get in the unemployment line china its costing american businesses too much to do business with you anymore because of oil prices
time to put america back to work, CHINESE JUNK!!!!
impleasen 2 weeks ago
its actually not Nike that forces the workers to do what they do... its the governments in those country's that force them.
digitalqw33r 2 weeks ago
@digitalqw33r you type garbage like this, people will know that you've never worked a day in your life. just fucking dumb
seven5teen 2 weeks ago
@seven5teen okay first off theres a crying baby that looks like shes in AFRICA, and some of these PHOTOS dont look like nike shop employees. Also, the factory facilities are owned by a Taiwanese and South Korean companies that work under a contract from nike. its not nike fault. although this does need to change.
digitalqw33r 2 weeks ago
I wonder if they're hiring??
illFoReel 2 weeks ago
One thing that bothers me about Nike is that their stupid logo was all over the Olympic Athlete's choths right on the colour so you could see if whenever they showed an athlete. Since when did the US vote Nike as the official product of the US Olympic team. I think something like USA should be on their colour and not a fucking logo to some shitty company who promote slave labor. It really makes our country look stupid.
mjpitche 2 weeks ago
this is the true history, nike, adidas, ralph lauren, apple, etc... they use factories on china or other countries where the workhand is very cheap.
you probably buy a shoes used by rafa nadal, federer for 130usd but a nike costed only 2-4 dolars.
carnicero27 2 weeks ago
Who cares, lower the costs, I want my cheap Nike shoes....nothing wrong with it
gopconservative78 2 weeks ago
that pic at 0:57 is in africa
robloxpwnmaster3 2 weeks ago
there's nothing to cry about -.-' is just work..
TheMrZacc 2 weeks ago
nike might exploit these people but would you rather they starve to death or they work and be able to feed themselves and their families even if they only get a little bit of money. death-people alive.........choose
67laser 2 weeks ago
Socialist propaganda. Most points taken up are flase and/or irrelevant, most pictures have nothing to do with Nike and the video is poorly done.
SyvertezHenrique 2 weeks ago
the best nike clothing and cleats are made in italy, when for adidas thats germany, this is just fake stuff son
czuyus 3 weeks ago
I was unaware Nike forced these people to work these jobs...
slayerment 3 weeks ago
HAHAHAHA I DIDN'T CRY
snkyaznchopstx 3 weeks ago
there real comfortable though
kamilianawow 3 weeks ago
the images are not related to each other at all
chriswordz 3 weeks ago
I always hated that fucking company. I bought their sneakers when I was a kid because there was so much peer pressure to be in style but they fell apart within a month and they were the least comfortable shoes I've ever had. My Converse sneakers would last for years at a fraction of the cost.
mjpitche 3 weeks ago
@mjpitche converse... is owned by nike
JusticeCN 2 weeks ago
@JusticeCN I was talking about my experience in 1980 when Nike hadn't been out that long. I recently had to buy some sneakers and I tried a few Nike pairs which hurt my knee when I walked. I ended up getting New Balance and they were decent. I don't know how they survive with the junk they put out
mjpitche 2 weeks ago
Try not to cry it's more like try not to laugh XD
therainofalifetime 3 weeks ago
0:15 i'm all ready crying
MegaToastmonster 3 weeks ago
like 90% of the pictures in this are no even related, just showing pictures of riots, and violence. and then pictures of shoes and clothes?
really nike make shoes? no kidding.
samwooww 3 weeks ago
this is just random pictures of people crying and then pictures of big factories.
samwooww 3 weeks ago
Globalisation, and the greed of multy companies does the same in every country... Even in Hungary regardless that we ar in the middle of Europe, even being a member of the European Union. A CNC lathe operator can earn about 269USD a month. To have a comparison bread costs 1.5 USD, Diesel costs 1.7USD. I doesn't have a wife, nor children, leaving alone, have a 30 square meter flat and a 6 years old 1.3 diesel car. I have to work 10-15 hours a day, 5 days a week to get to zero, plus xtra to live.
Sirajukihime 3 weeks ago
if this type of stuff wasnt going on. then all of those people would have no work. if nike payed them more, then they would have to charge u triple the price. they would then go bankrupt or if someone were to shut nike down how many people do you think would be out of work in north america? the iphone as well and alot of other things. dont you people realize, that its not just buying a pair of nikes. its your entire life style. there must be poor people in the world so that others can live rich.
kovam1812 3 weeks ago
Buy used clothing and handy me downs for my family.. That's how we help the planet and humanity. After my kids outgrow, we pass it on to another family. Sharing is caring..
Don't buy the cheap wllmart-kmrt stuff either! All made in sweat-shops!!!
BE LOVE!! Go to the light......
cruzin1969 3 weeks ago
it costs Nike about $17 to make a pair of their sneakers, they'll turn around and sell it to you for $150. This is why I don't buy Nike, that fucking swoosh symbol ain't worth that kind of money...
Darthbelal 3 weeks ago
If those shops close... where would those people work then? When those people get interviewed, they frequently shake their heads about anti-sweatshop protests in first world countries. And usually the wages in those shops are above average.
Schnuffituut 3 weeks ago
Stupid video! Stupid song with random pictures. Way to go idiot!
changrider 3 weeks ago
Tiger Woods: one of the biggest sellouts on the planet
damonstube 3 weeks ago
unions are NOT the answer. That only makes things worse. the union bosses get rich, not the workers. Then alot of companies will close up & move elsewhere
turfguy87 3 weeks ago
@turfguy87 Then tell me why my husband makes a good living wage when he is a common journeymen electrician? He could have been a foreman years ago, but we felt we had a good enough income and he didn't want to put up with the extra stress. Who today can make a decision like that who is not in a union?
OurFadedGarden 3 weeks ago
@OurFadedGarden
ME, & every other person who is self employed. Big gains will never come without stepping outside one's comfort zone & taking risks>
I've worked in enough union shops & factories to know what goes on behind the scenes. Lots of propaganda & BS, for one.
turfguy87 3 weeks ago
Nothing wrong with sweat shops. How else would they earn money in their countries without these jobs?
PureInsanity00 3 weeks ago