Nike to promote workers’ rights

Author: Jonathan Birchall, FT

Nike...is to strengthen efforts to combat potential abuses of the 800,000 workers in its global supply chain with a push to promote labour rights, including the freedoms to form and join trades unions. The company says it will set up an educational programme on workers’ rights to freedom of association, to be implemented in all of its contract factories by 2011...Hannah Jones, Nike’s vice-president for corporate responsibility, says the brand is now placing a greater effort on promoting “systemic” change in its supply chain.