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This SATURDAY: Protest a Niketown Near You!
> Noon at Niketown, San Francisco
> Union Square
> 278 Post St.
Three years ago, workers at the BJ&B factory, which produces hats for
Nike, won a collective bargaining agreement that included a ten percent
pay increase over and above the legal minimum. Nike, as well as other
licensees, responded not only by refusing to pay the extra money necessary
to cover the pay increase, but by shifting their orders to factories in
which workers were not able to exercise their right to form a union. This
has meant that the BJ&B factory, which three years ago employed over 1600
workers, currently only employs 250. Just last month, two hundred more
workers were laid off due to a lack of orders, and it appears that, if
Nike is not forced to stop its practice of cutting and running, BJ&B will
be forced to close its doors.
Students, workers, and community members around the country have decided
to take a stand and to tell Nike that a true commitment to workers' rights
does not include closing down their few unionized factories. On Saturday
August 26th, at NOON, protests will be held at Nike stores across the
nation. Protest in solidarity with students and workers internationally
in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Portland, Seattle, Boston, and San
Francisco.
Together we can force Nike to live up to its supposed commitment to social
justice and reward factories like BJ&B in which workers have won
recognition of some of their most basic rights.
> United Students Against Sweatshops
> www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
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if you plan on going, you can call jillian at 661-319-9796
> Noon at Niketown, San Francisco
> Union Square
> 278 Post St.
Three years ago, workers at the BJ&B factory, which produces hats for
Nike, won a collective bargaining agreement that included a ten percent
pay increase over and above the legal minimum. Nike, as well as other
licensees, responded not only by refusing to pay the extra money necessary
to cover the pay increase, but by shifting their orders to factories in
which workers were not able to exercise their right to form a union. This
has meant that the BJ&B factory, which three years ago employed over 1600
workers, currently only employs 250. Just last month, two hundred more
workers were laid off due to a lack of orders, and it appears that, if
Nike is not forced to stop its practice of cutting and running, BJ&B will
be forced to close its doors.
Students, workers, and community members around the country have decided
to take a stand and to tell Nike that a true commitment to workers' rights
does not include closing down their few unionized factories. On Saturday
August 26th, at NOON, protests will be held at Nike stores across the
nation. Protest in solidarity with students and workers internationally
in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Portland, Seattle, Boston, and San
Francisco.
Together we can force Nike to live up to its supposed commitment to social
justice and reward factories like BJ&B in which workers have won
recognition of some of their most basic rights.
> United Students Against Sweatshops
> www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
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if you plan on going, you can call jillian at 661-319-9796