Twelve years ago this month I got involved in the fight to end Nike's sweatshop abuses. Twelve years is one third of my life. It's somewhat surreal when I think of it like that. In 1997, I was in my ...

Thirteen years ago, St. John’s University assistant soccer coach Jim Keady refused to wear Nike-logoed gear to honor that school’s endorsement deal. He resigned his post and has been campaigning ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 1990s, Nike became controversial after complaints that its Southeast Asia-contracted shoe factories operated sweatshops ...

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make a high-profile pitch for a Pacific trade deal he promises will protect workers on Friday at Nike Inc, a company once reviled for using ...

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Regardless of how sturdy his No Sweat-brand sneakers are, Adam Neiman faces a difficult uphill climb taking on Nike in his latest anti- sweatshop campaign. Neiman -- a roofer by trade who runs his own ...

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SUKABUMI, Indonesia —Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand’s owner, admits ...

Jim Keady feels Colin Kaepernick's pain. Sort of. He, too, was a guy who believed in something and it cost him everything, to paraphrase the slug line of Nike's new marketing campaign featuring ...

The dispute that brought Nike Inc. and a California labor activist before the U.S. Supreme Court over the company’s statements on working conditions in its factories has been settled. And the winner ...