Sportswear giant Nike has been under fire for the working conditions in their factories since the 1990s. 

Now Nike is back with new tactics to do the same old thing: make money off the backs of garment workers around the world. 

Nike is one of the long-term holdouts who continues to refuse to pay garment workers what they’re owed after devastating pandemic-era wage theft and fulfill their obligations under the UN Guiding Principles. 

This new report from the Clean Clothes Campaign and the WSR Network looks at the case studies of Violet Apparel, a Ramatex subsidiary in Cambodia, and Hong Seng Knitting in Thailand. 

These two case studies spell out Nike’s failures to address their human rights obligations – and highlight the complicity of the social auditing industry in undermining workers’ rights and putting clients’ commercial interests ahead of human rights obligations.

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