Nikes dispute with University of Oregon

However, Knight felt that Oregon had broken a chain of trust when they decided to join the Worker Rights Consortium, as opposed to the Fair Labor Association. Oregon did this in response to student activists, and faculty that wanted to take steps to ensure that products sold in the campus store, especially university-logo apparel, were not manufactured under sweatshop conditions.

The cause of this rift between Nike and Oregon was the fact that Nike was a vigorous supporter of the FLA, which was imposed under President Clinton’s policies. The fact that Oregon had decided to support a different Labor rights group was seen as a slap in the face of Nike, which had donated a lot of money over the years in support of the school. Nike felt that the university should have followed the FLA.

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