A Nike Plant in Honduras has problems

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was just reading a report about a plant called Star that makes T-shirts for Nike in Honduras.  The report tells a story about workers that got together and formed a union and filed all the necessary papers with the correct agencies.  They were supposed to be under the special protection of the state, but all the founding members were fired, and 55 of 58 total members eventually were illegally terminated as well.  After staging many protests they eventually got their jobs back and were paid for lost wages, but only after alot of fighting for it.  This all happened at the end of last year.  This report concerns me, because it also details the way things are run there, which just shows me how little Nike is doing in its contract factories.  The workers hardly ever see their plant manager and when there are meetings with him, he speaks to them very badly.  The workers told of how he recently told them they used too much toilet paper, and they weren’t worth that much.  He also told them they could go pee outside, and he told them he should get some plants like poison ivy and let them wipe with the leaves.  This doesn’t sound like a very good work environment to me.   One of the biggest things that upsets me is that when the Nike people visit the plant, they don’t talk to workers – only management to find out how things are going.  This shows that Nike doesn’t really care about how the workers are being treated, they just want their people to come back with good reports.  This method of doing things is totally contradictory to Nike’s responsibility report, as it shows no real responsibility by Nike to handle problems with labor abuses, and totally confirms my thoughts that Nike isn’t really doing anything to correct these problems.  No good.