Salon.com > Dene-Hern Chen http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 00:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is Adidas exploiting its workers? http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/is_adidas_exploiting_workers_salpart/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/is_adidas_exploiting_workers_salpart/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12970012 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Am Phalla sits outside the factory gates of apparel maker Shen Zhou (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., sharing a lunch of rice, vegetables and fried fish with coworkers.

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She has been sewing clothes at Shen Zhou for a little less than a year, but is unaware that the company, which produces Olympic merchandise for sportswear giant Adidas, is currently under investigation over allegations that it short changes its workers in places like Cambodia.

The London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) is conducting the investigation in response to a July 14 Daily Mail article, claiming Adidas is in violation of an agreement with Locog that merchandisers must pay workers a sustainable living wage. Full of quotes from Cambodian workers, the article contrasts their seemingly meager earnings with the relatively high cost of a single Adidas Olympic garment.

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