You can't mess with Bucky:
"Nike has not developed, and does not intend to develop, meaningful ways of addressing the plight of displaced workers and their families in Honduras," UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said in a statement. "It has not presented clear long-range plans to prevent or respond to similar problems in the future. For this combination of reasons, we have decided to end our relationship for now."
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UW-Madison became the 1st university to dump Nike because of it's treatment of workers. They have clearly violated the university's code of conduct, and really left the university no choice but to sever it's ties with the company for the present. The decision came primarily because:
The Worker Rights Consortium reported in October that two factories that produce collegiate apparel for Nike in Honduras -- Vision Tex and Hugger de Honduras -- were shuttered early in 2009 without paying legally mandated severance and back pay to some 1,800 workers. The amount owed is more than $2 million.
While the chancellor had been advised to take similar action in December, she decided to give Nike 120 days to address these issues. Instead they chose to be completely unresponsive forcing the university's hand.
It will be interesting to see if any other universities or professional sports leagues join UW in protesting Nike's global sweatshops. It makes me feel proud to be a Madisonian and a University of Wisconsin employee.