University of Wisconsin ends Nike contract

Source: browndailyheral Posted By: Hinton B...5369 days ago

The University of Wisconsin is ending its apparel licensing agreement with Nike because of concerns about displaced workers from factories used by the company in Honduras, Chancellor Biddy Martin told UW’s Labor Licensing Policy Committee on April 9, according to a news release.

After the factories Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex closed in January 2009, Nike allegedly failed to pay its former laborers the over $2 million owed in required severances, the release stated. The university’s Code....

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