{"id":7324,"date":"2013-05-06T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T12:35:37","slug":"adidas-encourages-factory-workers-to-anonymously-text-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/05\/06\/adidas-encourages-factory-workers-to-anonymously-text-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas Encourages Factory Workers To Anonymously Text Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/06\/adidas-factory-workers-text-message-complaints_n_3223412.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7325\" title=\"Adidas Encourages Factory Workers To Anonymously Text Complaints\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/130508_adidas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>German sports gear maker Adidas said Monday it is encouraging workers  in factories of some of its Asian suppliers to anonymously share  possible grievances directly with the company via text message. The new hotline service will help bridge the communication gap  between management and workers, enabling employees to &#8220;simply send an  SMS when they feel their rights are breached,&#8221; Adidas AG said. Adidas&#8217; efforts to improve control of labor conditions  coincide with a renewed debate on working conditions at the suppliers of  Western firms in the wake of deadly incidents in Bangladesh&#8217;s garment  industry, where a factory building collapse last month has claimed at  least 645 lives. Adidas, which also owns the Reebok brand, said its SMS initiative was  successfully tested since last year at an Indonesian supplier&#8217;s factory  and will now be rolled out to four other plants in that country and one  in Vietnam. Under the program, workers at a supplier can send text messages to  their company&#8217;s management but they will also be seen and monitored by  Adidas directly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/06\/adidas-factory-workers-text-message-complaints_n_3223412.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: Adidas | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/06\/adidas-factory-workers-text-message-complaints_n_3223412.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German sports gear maker Adidas said Monday it is encouraging workers in factories of some of its Asian suppliers to anonymously share possible grievances directly with the company via text message. The new hotline service will help bridge the communication gap between management and workers, enabling employees to &#8220;simply send an SMS when they feel&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":[184],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adidas","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","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=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}