{"id":4762,"date":"2010-07-26T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2010-07-28T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:28:57","slug":"pressured-nike-to-help-workers-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/07\/26\/pressured-nike-to-help-workers-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressured, Nike to Help Workers in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/27\/business\/global\/27nike.html?_r=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4763\" title=\"100728_nike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100728_nike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Facing pressure from universities and student groups, the apparel maker Nike announced on Monday that it would pay $1.54 million to help 1,800  workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when two subcontractors closed their factories. Nike agreed to the payment after several universities and a nationwide  group, United Students Against Sweatshops, pressed it to pay some $2  million in severance that the two subcontractors had failed to pay. The University  of Wisconsin, Madison terminated its licensing agreement with Nike  over the Honduran dispute, and Cornell warned that it would do the same  unless Nike resolved the matter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/27\/business\/global\/27nike.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Honduras |  Company: Nike  | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/27\/business\/global\/27nike.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing pressure from universities and student groups, the apparel maker Nike announced on Monday that it would pay $1.54 million to help 1,800 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when two subcontractors closed their factories. Nike agreed to the payment after several universities and a nationwide group, United Students Against Sweatshops, pressed it to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nike","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}