Third world of countries have Nike factories for workers to produce new shoes. In some countries, Nike’s wages have various to pay for workers to earn low wages that you imagined. Today, workers in Nike USA earn more money than other countries to keep working in Nike factories.
Indonesia: $2.46 a day
About 10,000 Indonesians were mad of wages and need to gain more wages in protest what they have work harder.
“If I don’t work overtime, I can’t survive,” says Baltazar at PT Hasi Nike factory in Jakarta. He works an average of 40 overtime hours a week.
Vietnam: $l.60 a day
1,300 Vietnamese workers at the Sam Yang factory were furious that they demanded a one cent per hour raise in wages.
Chinese: $1.75 a day
In China, there is no minimum wage for workers to earn and maybe they worked harder and suffer to earn at flat rate of wages.
“The supervisors will get nervous and move the work to another province. It’s impossible to monitor factory conditions,” says Asia Monitor Resource Center in Hong Kong.
When you go to the shoe stores. Shoes priced between $20 to $200 roughly. You imagined that you already pay over $100 for shoes that cost less than workers earned five dollars a day to make new shoes in factory!
Cited: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Boycotts/NikeThird_facts.html
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Few thoughts: I am curious what those wages in those countries compare to other companies’ wages there. To us, $2.46 per day is not sustainable but what about the standard cost of living in their countries? For instance in Kenya, people are thrilled if they earn $5 per month while it’d be criminal here.
Also, you have to factor in the costs of transporting products from those countries to the US market. Also, you have to think about how much the company pay retail people, costs of maintaining those stores, and so on. All of those are built in the product pricing. Then from there, we can decide whether if the final sticker price is reasonable or not.
I understand that $1 in America is not the same as $1 in other countries. However, US companies often take advantage of cheap labor outside of the US without paying enough attention to working conditions and child labor. In some countries, it is okay for a 10 year old to work all day in a factory – it used to be legal in the US just a century ago. But do we want to support companies that use child labor, regardless of whether is is legal in their country? The demand for products in America often leads to questionable practices in other countries – pollution in China, child labor in Guatemala, overworked and underpaid employees in other countries who need the wage so bad they are afraid to complain. I think we need to start looking at ethics and the environment, thanks for looking into this for us.
I’m aware of that situation, their income in other country is not comforting as USA but its sad to see those people in other countries suffers and the problem there’s a lot of unjustice in other countries. Many of those who are not educated are being taken advantage of and those child labors don’t know any better but their working income is very cheap and thats their superior occupation income. It’s heart breaking and we all should keep on looking out for our american business.
I agree with all who talked about other countries’ low wages .. We need to stop this.
They worked harder for earns more wages and $1 a day that is crazy for low wage. Indonesia are crazy and worked harder for 40 hours overtime a week… My opinion is business need more extra wages.
I feel so bad about other country. I know we are very lucky to be in America. We should help them out and improve in the future! I want to travel to other country after I graduate and help some people if they need anything from us.
GREED Just plain greed for profit the these big corporations are making and not paying enough U>S> taxes for selling their product in this America.
Holy shit, better English please. I can’t understand some of the things this article says.