http://www.teamsweat.org Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1971" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Hannah Jones, Nike VP for Sustainable Business and Innovation"][/caption] EFJ/Team Sweat: If you have attended a “Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice” lecture, you have heard me ask you to write to Nike and request they disclose the wage rates at all their factories ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/02/08/an-open-reponse-to-nikes-hannah-jones-jim-keady-breaks-down-nikes-pr-spin-on-wages/ Ulma Haryanto | February 06, 2012 Jim Keady with Nike workers in Indonesia A towering blond, 40-year old Jim Keady’s presence is a stark contrast to the group he has fervently defended for the past decade. Thousands of workers from a Nike plant in Serang, Banten province, have Keady ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/02/06/the-jakarta-globe-american-labor-activist-just-does-it-for-the-workers/ Banten (NIKE) Workers Still Waiting for Back Pay From Nikomas Anita Rachman & Ulma Haryanto | February 06, 2012 American Jim Keady poses with activists in front of an anti-Nike poster. More than 4,400 workers in a Serang, Banten, factory that manufactures products for Nike should by now have received up to two ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/02/06/the-jakarta-globe-nike-workers-still-waiting-for-back-pay/ Jim Keady with SPN Committee Members at Nike's PT Sinar Timur factory EFJ/Team Sweat: I just submitted the following report to Nike CEO, Mark Parker. I will keep you posted as this case moves forward. Peace, Jim Keady, Director Educating for Justice ********************** Dear Mark, I am writing with regard to PT Sinar Timur Industrindo, a Nike ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/01/24/report-alleged-violations-of-nikes-code-of-conduct-at-nikes-pt-sinar-timur-industrindo-factory-in-indonesia/ By Peter Alford The Australian January 21, 2012 Anti-sweatshop activist Jim Keady talks to workers at PT SM Global factory. Picture: Revaldi JIM Keady, anti-sweatshop activist, revolutionary Christian, former semi-pro goalie and continuing soccer nut, first tangled with Nike Inc 14 years ago. As an assistant coach with St John’s University national ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/01/21/the-australian-one-man-crusade-to-end-nike-sweatshops-pays-off/ Team Sweat: I spent this afternoon meeting with Bambang Wirahoso, the Chairman of the Serikat Pekerja Nasional (SPN) – a trade union that represents tens of thousands of Nike factory workers in Indonesia. Our discussion centered on the case of forced overtime without pay at Nike’s PT Nikomas factory. (CLICK HERE ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/01/10/we-won-nike-workers-paid-200000000-in-overtime-cheating-case/ I spent 29 long hours traveling from my home in New Jersey to my second home, Indonesia.  I have come here to continue the fight I began 15 years ago.  A fight to get get the workers who make Nike products the justice they deserve - justice ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2012/01/09/dispatch-from-indonesia-right-fight-right-target-can-we-win-by-jim-keady/ GIVE THE GIFT OF FAIR TRADE! Team Sweat: Still in the hunt for that perfect gift for the Holidays? Why not get someone you love an EFJ Fair Trade T-Shirt? This is a gift that just keeps on giving.  When you pick up one of our famous fair trade shirts... * You are supporting ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/12/13/give-the-gift-of-a-fair-trade-t-shirt/ Team Sweat: Below is a letter from Siti Nurrofiqoh, the Chairperson of Bangkit Labour Union (Serikat Buruh Bangkit or SBB).  This union represents workers at Nike's SM Global factory.  I am sharing the letter with you as I received it.  There are some spelling and grammatical errors, ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/12/09/an-indonesian-union-leader-speaks-out-on-nikes-workers-being-abused/ In the near fifteen years I have been working to end Nike's sweatshop abuses and make Nike a fair trade company, I have watched with great pain as Nike has aggressively colonized Catholic schools across the nation.  In fact, this is how my work started.  Back in ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/12/09/should-catholic-schools-wear-nike-by-jim-keady/ In 2011, you were part of Team Sweat and you made a difference. Because of three extremely successful research/organizing trips to Indonesia in February, June and September, we had an explosion of exciting activity this year and it could not have happened without you. Here is what your support ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/11/30/what-did-you-do-to-nikes-workers/ Team Sweat, I have been offered the unique opportunity to present the Nike Board of Directors with a letter for their consideration.  The letter below was submitted yesterday to Ms. Sonya Durkin-Jones, Nike's Director of Sustainable Manufacturing and Sourcing and will be given to all of the ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/10/29/an-open-letter-to-the-nike-board-of-directors/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRf26Xwm2Ac[/youtube] http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/10/21/video-more-students-join-the-revolution-to-make-nike-fairtrade/ Team Sweat: Below is a detailed reporting of the recent victory we won at Nike's PT Nikomas factory in Serang, Indonesia on the issue of "jam molor" (unpaid, forced overtime).  This was an eight month long fight and there is still work to be done, but we can ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/10/20/victory-at-nikes-pt-nikomas-factory-a-lesson-in-persistance/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCrUZuyZHyk[/youtube] http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/10/20/video-are-nikes-factory-workers-paid-a-living-wage/ Hey Nike Workers! Did you know that last year was a good year for Nike CEO, Mark Parker?  Yes, it was a VERY good year. The April 10, 2011 edition of the NY Times reported that Mr. Parker’s total compensation for fiscal year 2010 was $13,118,834.00. If we divide that number ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/09/19/hey-nike-workers-nikes-ceo-made-1311883400-in-2010/ I spent the early part of today on the hunt for Nike scrap shoe rubber.  For those of you familiar with my work, you know that I have been engaging Nike on this issue for more than a decade.  For years, scrap shoe rubber from Nike factories ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/09/09/report-nikes-considered-design-it-sounds-really-good-in-a-press-release/ Speaking with Nike apparel workers Today I met with workers who are producing apparel for Nike – “jackets worn by soccer coaches” as I was told.  Of course this hit close to home and I thought of the dozens and dozens of coaching friends of mine who ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/09/08/report-stress-cannot-describe-what-i-feel-nike-apparel-worker/ Pak Bambang, Chairman SPN Today I met with the Chairman and Officers from the Serikat Pekerja Nasional (SPN).  The SPN trade union represents tens of thousands of workers from seven of Nike’s Indonesian factories.  The majority of our discussion focused on the issue of forced overtime ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/09/06/report-nike-workers-were-in-fact-forced-to-work-overtime-and-cheated-of-their-wages/ Team Sweat: I want to share with you an example of the type of advocacy I do on behalf of Nike's Indonesian workers. It is this kind of engagement with Nike over the years that has won us victories small and large. Since this is an ongoing case and ... http://www.teamsweat.org/2011/08/31/an-example-of-team-sweats-advocacy-for-nike-workers-in-indonesia/