Nike Manager Jailed

Sat., June 28, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

A floor manager at a Taiwanese-owned factory that makes shoes for Nike was sentenced to six months in prison for physically abusing workers.

The Dong Nai provincial People’s Court found the manager, 27-year-old Hsu Chin-yun, guilty of mistreating workers at Nike subcontractor Pou Chen Company in Dong Nai.

Capitalizing on the country’s low labor costs, Nike has five manufacturing plants in but has run into a whirlwind of bad publicity over conditions at those plants.

Hsu’s conviction came just days after former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, hired by Nike to review its labor practices, said he saw no evidence of systemic abuse at the company’s Asian factories.

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