Saturday, March 29, 2008

Adidas workers on £11 a week in China

"THE German sportswear giant Adidas has paid a reported £50m to sponsor this summer’s Beijing Olympics with the slogan “Impossible is nothing”.

For the thousands of Chinese workers who earn a basic £11.36 a week making Adidas’s expensive trainers at factories in the industrial city of Fuzhou, one thing does seem impossible: to get fair play."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3646424.ece




1 comment:

Beauty said...

The "My World - Your World" effect will come into play when the next Chinese generation that came from £11pw wages backgrounds become the dirty bombers of the future. Part of a complex system that is referred to as chaos where people are still looking for the butterfly that flapped its wings in Brazil and caused a tsunami in Japan. The UN and big business do not see the complete metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly larva pupa and transformation as a life cycle. History will show that we raised these concerns.