AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA: OLYMPIC SPONSOR NIKE COMES UNDER FIRE FOR LABOUR CONDITIONS IN ITS INDONESIAN FACTORIES.

Record ID: 979882

  • Title: AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA: OLYMPIC SPONSOR NIKE COMES UNDER FIRE FOR LABOUR CONDITIONS IN ITS INDONESIAN FACTORIES.
  • Date: 4th September 2000
  • Summary: TANGERANG, INDONESIA (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN FROM SHIRT TO KEADY COOKING 2. VARIOUS OF KEADY COOKING 3. CLOSEUP OF T-SHIRT SAYING "JUST STOP IT" 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) KEADY SAYING: "Nike a company that is consistently promotes independence, empowerment, striving to be the best you can be, how their whole way of doing business here is completely counter to that. It is grounded in fear, oppression and exploitation and being part of the olympic games, the olympics are founded on an ideal of promoting peace and justice in the world through sport. And it is the major sponsor of the olympics. Certainly the way they are operating runs counter to the ideal" 5. NIKE BILLBOARD 6. WIDE OF FACTORY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (SEPTEMBER 4, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. NEWS CONFERENCE 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JIM KEADY, AMERICAN SOCCER PLAYER, SAYING: "Having spent the past month attempting as best I could to live as Nike workers live in Indonesia, I can tell you it's not a great job for any human being you cannot live on 2 Australian dollars a day, you can survive but you cannot live, two dollars Australian, that's 10,000 rupiah in Indonesia it's a starvation wage. I know I starved on it, I lost 25 pounds and spent most of the month painfully hungry and exhausted" 9. AUDIENCE AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TIM O'CONNOR SAYING: "We're looking for Nike to pay decent wages and have decent human rights practices and if they can take the lead in that where before they've taken the lead in pushing into low human rights and low-wage countries we want them to be the leader going into the other direction and then we'll be in a great position to put pressure on other countries to follow suit. So clearly conditions are very poor in factories in developing countries like Indonesia. We believe big companies like Nike can do better and should do better" 11. WALKING THROUGH SLUM AREAS 12. VARIOUS OF PEOLE LIVING IN SLUM AREA 13. WIDE OF CHILDREN 14. PAN OF SLUM 15. VARIOUS PEOPLE TALKING WATER FROM WELL Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA/ TANGERANG, INDONESIA
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  • Country: Australia Indonesia
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