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Andrew Young issues report on NIKE's global labor practices
Former UN Ambassador, Mayor of Atlanta, civil rights and human rights leader Andrew Young issued a 75-page report in Atlanta recently that evaluated NIKE's Code of Conduct" in some details as it is applied to the factories that produce NIKE goods and apparel.
In the report, Young concluded that, "NIKE is doing a good job, but it can and should do better." Background
Young and his firm, GoodWorks international, has been working for six months on this project which it undertook at NIKE's request. As conditions for his work, Young requested the right to talk with any person he wanted, to review confidential NIKE audits and other documents, to visit factories that the selected, to talk with factory workers and members of the human rights and labor communities and to make his final report public.
NIKE CEO Phi Knight agreed to all of these conditions, telling Young that he should, "Go anywhere, see anything and talk to anybody." Knight also agreed to make Young's report public.
As disclosed in the report, Young and GoodWorks International has undertaken an extensive list of tasks including: * Traveled to twelve factories in three Asian countries: Vietnam China and Indonesia [those twelve factories...