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0:04: (background music) 0:10: (Jim Keady) At the age of 18, 0:12: I was just on track. G o to a good college , get a decent de gree , do good and 0:20: you’re going to get an entry -level job down at Wall Street . 0:22: You’re going to work real hard; you’ re going to be a broker; you’re going to make tons of money ; you’re going to be retired , and 0:26: by a young age , you’re going to have a house on the beach in New Jersey a nd a 0:29: couple of Mercedes . And a 0:30 : trophy wife , and that will be the end of the game. 0:32: I’m done —multi -millionaire —that’s it! 0:38 : I was playing professionally for the New Jersey Imperials ; 0:41: I was playing the best soccer my life . 0:51: (background music) 1:03: I get offered 1:04: this coaching job by one of my teammates to go coach at Saint John's University , 1:08: the NCA A Division 1 national champions; they are the best team in the country . 1:12: I was having a blast . I was loving coaching ; I was lovin g pla ying . 1:16: I'm living in New York . I'm also studyi ng stuff tha t I really enjoy . 1:20: I’m dig ging into studying theology 1:22: for the first time in my life in a formal way . 1:26: I get online , I start doing searches about Nike and 1:29: sweatshops and labor practices . And what I found was , 1:33: if you want ed to pick a company that completely violates everything 1:37: the Catholic social teaching is about , Nike would be your perfect case study . 1:41: A t the same time I’m doing this research , Saint John's University Athletic Department 1:45: starts to negotiate a $3.5 million endorsement deal with Nike 1:49: that would require me , as a coach , to wear and promote the products . 1:52: Saint John's University is the largest Catholic institution in the country , 1:56: coupling itself with the largest sportswear compan y in the world , 2:01: and I said “how can we , as such a public symbol of Catholicism , 2:07: do something that runs completely counter to our mission ?” 2:11: We’re saying to the world , “Look , 2:14: you should care about the poor , and we should fight against injustice , and we 2:18: should seek out the cause s of poverty , 2:20: well unless you ’re get ting some really good athletic equipment 2:23: and $3.5 million along with it.” I mean you want to talk about just 2:27: hypocrisy manif ested 2:31: in the real world —this was it ! (News broadcast - “And you have the story at Saint John ,” 2:35: “Jim Keady has caused a massive pile up.” “He is clearly an ideal ist.”) I didn’t go to Saint 2:40: John's University 2:41: to work for Nike ; I went there to coach 2:44: and to study theology . (News broadcast : “Keady , a devout Catholic 2:48: protest ed, ‘How does he reach the point where he thinks it's immoral to wear the swoosh ?’ 2:51: ‘Because he's coming at it from a background of faith and r eligion ; 2:55: this isn't about 2:56: just money or power or a job or anything . Think about this , 2:59: how many of us on a job that we really want 3:02: are prepared to get a memo from t he boss saying stop doing this or you're out , 3:06: and you keep doin g it ?’”) I was given an ultimatum by my head coach , 3:09: wear N ike and drop this issue or resign , 3:13: end of story . So, in June of 1998 , I was constructively fired . 3:24 : People were tell ing me , “you don’t know what you're talking about ;” “you know , those are great 3:27: jobs , and you can live like a king or queen on those wages , and those people are 3:30: really happy to have those jobs .” 3:32: I want to go find out . 3:35: Doesn't everybody just want to know the truth ? S o I want ed to know the truth 3:39: first hand . I wan ted to see it . I wanted to smell it. I wanted to hold it in my hand . 3:49: I knew I was going to need other people , 3:50: Leslie was a natural match . 3:54: (Leslie Kretzu) Jim and I went to college together ; we came together ultimately because 3:58: we share an interest in labor rights issues . 4:01: (Jim) I eventually met back up there a few years after school 4:05: through an email about sweatshops . 4:08: (Leslie) I really wanted to be working with these issues . 4:11: (Jim ) I wrote to my b uddy, and said “who is this woman that's writing you about this st uff?” 4:15: And he said , “she's n uts like you ; you should e mail her .” She was actually in route 4:19: to go work with Mother T eresa ’s sisters in India , and I sent her off this email . 4:23: “Hey, I’ve got this great idea ; let's go st arve on Nike’s wages in Indonesia .” 4:26: (Leslie) A nd so he’s like , “I really need to go .” (Jim) And she wrote me back , 4:29: “sounds great .” (Leslie) L et's go ! 4:3 7: (Jim) We plopped down in Tangerang, Indonesia , this industrial suburb outside of the 4:42: capital of Jakarta , 4:43: w ith the plans that , for the next month , we were going to live 4:46: as Nike ’s factory workers live d, which 4:49: me ant that we were going to go li ve in a worker ’s slum outside of the capital , 4:53: and we were going to live on the workers ’ wages , a $1.25 a day , 4:57: for the next month . To try and come to a better understanding 5:01: of what it's like for Nike factory workers 5:04: to make this kind of money and live under these conditions . 5:1 1: We lived in a 9 by 9 cement box . 5:15: It was over 100 degrees, 100% percent humidity , a small window , and certainly no air 5:20: conditioning . 5:21: (Leslie) N o furniture , you slept on a very thin mat 5:24: on a n uneven cement floor covered in shelf paper . 5:28: (Jim) T he streets outside of your home 5:31: are lined by open sewers , 5:34 : and what that means in the rainy season is you would have all that feces just 5:38: float up into the streets and into your house . 5:40: (Leslie) And e very time that you go to the bathroom , it comes back out into the sewer for 5:44: everybody else to see and smell . 5:46: (Jim) Yo u would have football size rats that would stampede over the ceiling at night 5:51: and come up through the toilet and look for stuff to eat in the house . 5:55: Or the fish size cock roaches that would crawl over you at night. 6:03: I’m Jim. Just like anyone 6:09: around t he world , you can't just drop into someone's life and be like , 6:12: “hi w e're here ; we want to live in your life , and tell us how much it sucks .” 6:16: You had to build bonds of trust. 6:19: Jim, nice to meet you. 6:26: (Leslie) They treated us very politely , and it wa sn't until they saw 6:30: that we were committed in 6:33: the capacity of living on the wages that they're forced to live on , 6:37: in the co nditions that they are living, that they felt that they could 6:41: start to begin to trust us. You get to know the m, and you hold their children, and you 6:46: eat with them, and you share stories with them ; they become part of your family . 6:5 1: (Jim) W e would go to different workers homes , 6:53: you ’ve got like fo ur women sleeping in like an 8 by 8 cement box and 6:59: all of their possessions are in there . 7:00: Like , everything is in this small area . 7:03: (Leslie) T he workers would have to share a bathroom with five to ten 7:09: other families . The workers would have to share living 7:13: quarters , actually like a row 7:16: of shacks with har d-hit tin roofs. 7:19: A ll those families would share a laundry 7:23: corner and a kitchen facility . 7:26: And they would all share the same well to take the water out of. 7:3 5: (Jim) A $1.25 a day after you’ve paid for your rent, water , electricity , and any major transportation costs , 7:41: you’re going to be left on average 7:42: with roughly 7,000 Rupiah per day . What the hell does that mean ? 7:49 : That's going to buy you two simple meals of rice and vegetables , 7:52: a bag of peanuts , a bottle of iced tea , and some dish detergent . 7:58: And that’s all you can get . 7:5 9: And that your reward? 8:02: (Leslie) Without a doubt, we found that out the first week that we were there , there's no way that you can live, 8:07: on a $1.2 5 a day and maintain your human dignity . 8:11: It's just not possible . 8:18: (Jim) I lost 25 pounds living on Nike's wages in Indonesia . 8:22: I spent the month painfully hungry and 8:25: tired , like near the point of exhaustion most days . 8:28: (Leslie) I just felt my energy storage was just 8:31: depleted , and I just started going downhill fast , and I just started getting sick every day. 8:38: (Jim) And she got very sick one day ; she had like 8:40: a fever of 104 , and she's got to deal with “well , 8:44: I have a fever of 104 ; I can buy aspirin and like a little 8:47: drink box to get some vitamin C , but if I buy those two things 8:51: I don't eat for the rest of the day. ” 8:59: (Leslie) I don’t know what this is going to do, because we’re going to go home , and we’re going to say 9:07: this is not enough money , and no one is going to do a damn thing different. 9:15: (Jim) How do you feel like a human being ? 9:18: How do you feel about you r work or your gifts? 9:2 3: You know , for them, the workers that I’ve talked to the last couple of days, 9:2 6: a number of them have said the only thing we have is our physical labor. 9:33: Because I just bought th e smallest thing of shaving cream 9:36: and one r azor that I might be able to use two or three times, 9:42: I have to cut out three meals this week. 10:08: (Leslie) T hey will be working overtime hours just to get by , 10:12: because they can ’t possibly get by on the wa ge that they’re paid 10:16: without work ing incredible amounts of overtime. 10:21: A nd when you're working up to 15 hours a day , six to seven days a week 10:25: your 2 -year -old child just 10:28: doesn't see you , you know. T hey don't get to see their children . 10:32: (Jim) T he kids can ’t even go to school. 10:35: H ow are you going to break a cycle of poverty and have real economic development 10:39: if you have a whole lost generation of children that aren't even 10:42: educated ? 10:53: I'm walking down this dirt path into this village , 10:55: and I see this massive pile of scrap shoe rubber that I later learned came 11:00: from one of Nike's factories . 11:02: And piles like that get dumped there all the time , and the end result of these 11:06: piles is that they get burned 11:08: in that village in the big open space where kids play . 11:11: A nd the burning fumes , I learned from the company that designs Nike shoe 11:16: rubber , 11:16: will give off toxins and carcinogens . 11:20: K ids are paying t he price , and they're the ones with chest in fections , and 11:23: they're the ones that are going to develop cancer . 11:32: When we were in Indonesia , we made attempts 11:34: to get into a Nike factory because Nike claims on their website , “we have nothing 11:39: to hide .” 11:40: (Male voice) I’m M ike. 11:41: ( Nike employee) Hi, Mike. 11:42: (Male voice) How are you doing? 11:43: (Nike employee) Good, 11:44: We went over to Nike’s corporate offices , 11:45: and Nike denied us that. 11:49: (Nike employee) We’re unable to accommodate that request. 11:5 3: (Leslie) Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon had faxe d an info sheet out to all the 11:56: factories to be placed on the wall for all workers to see 12:00: that read , “if you are approached by Jim Keady, Leslie Kretzu, or Mike Pierantozzi , 12:03: do n ot speak to them . (Jim) They’re only to speak to management ; there will 12:07: be severe consequences if you're found talking to them. ’ 12:11: (Leslie) And they know from their management how they're supposed to act , and if they don't , 12:14: there are som e severe ramifications . 12:16: A nywhere from significant harassment to 12:19: death , and I mean this in a very literal sense. 12:27: Ce rtainly , management o f the factory did n’t 12:30: want us to be there , and it was kinda frightening because several times we tried 12:34: to get in to the factory . 12:35: (Jim) We were n’t out o f the van for more than three minutes , 12:39: and there was security like surrounding us , and then the factory managers came out . “What's 12:44: going on ?” 12:45 : We’re outside a Nike shoe factory right now; security is kind of surrounding us. 12:50: (Leslie) They’re like, “What are you doing here? 12:53: W hy are you here ?” It was frightening , you know , 12:56: because —who knows? 13:02: (Mike) Security guy here was tracking us down. 13:05: (Jim) From that moment , we were tailed by factory security 13:09: the prey me n for the local mafia . 13:13: The local mafia certainly works in conjunction with these factory bosses . 13:18: The f actor y bosses —some of them —are just bruta l, ruthless , 13:22: hired muscle to keep workers in line . We met with one worker, Julianto. 13:26: H e told us because he was union organizing , he was trying to form an 13:30: independent union. 13:31: (Leslie) He was threatened at gunpoint ; he had his house ransacked , 13:36: he was given death threats , and he had to flee back to his home village 13:40: because he fear ed for his life. 13:46: This is literally a life and death issue , and this happens at all the factories. 13:50: (Jim) E very worker that we talk to , 13:54: there 's this struggle with this fear — 13:57: this culture of fear that just permeates the air 14:01: that , yeah, they want to tell you the truth and try and fight for their rights , 14:06: but they also want the kids to have a father or a mother . 14:10: T hey're dealing everyday with the threat of losing their lives for doing this kind 14:14: of work . 14:15: I mean , they showed tremend ous courage in light of that. 14:20: W e were able to me et with a woman by the name of Dita Sari who had been 14:24: organizin g Nike and Reebok factory workers at the age of 23 and was illegally 14:29: jailed and put in prison and tortured . 14:31: (Dita Sari) On the 8th of July 199 6, I was arrested by the army, 14:35: the local army, in East Jawa . Commented [MS1]: Check word 14:39: They kicked me and they used their fists and their sticks. 14:43: And they were told to hurt me and to torture me in front of the workers 14:46: to show them an example. 14:51: (Leslie) I thin k the majority of workers wer e saying “look, we don’t want 14:55: you to pull out the job s; we want to work . 14:59: We’d like to work ; we want to make the shoes. W e were proud of what 15:04: we do , 15:04: but we don't want to be exploited . 15:07: W hy can't you just let us me et our basic needs? ” 15:11: (Jim) We’re talking about food , clothin g, housing , health care , education , 15:15: being able to take care of your kids , and some modest savings . 15:19: That's not a tall order. 15:22: Excuse me, do you guys know where the Nike campus is? 15:26: (Jogger) Yeah, you make a right on Wal ker, and you’ll see it on your southwest corner. 15:30: (Jim) Okay, thanks. 15:3 4: Okay, so we’re on Nike’s campus right now ; it's a little bit different than the factories in Indonesia — 15:38: just a tiny bit . 15:41: (Leslie) Hi, how are you? 15:42: (Phil Kni ght) Hi, good to see you. 15:44: (Jim) Listen, umm, I was hoping to set some time where we could talk. 15:5 0: I’m really concerned about the workforce in Indonesia. 15:53: You know , I spent the summer living there , living with them, and living on the wages that are paid to factory workers. 15:57 : (Phil Knight) You’re worried about that? 15:58: (Jim) Yeah. 16:0 0: (Phil Knight) Ok, why don’t you call my secretary , and see what happen s. 16: 01: (Jim) I did. I cal led Lisa last week. I called Vada. I called Dusty . I called Brad Figel. 16:06: I called Amanda. 16:08: (Phil Knight) You’re going to have to talk to someone else; maybe you need to talk to Dusty Kidd. 16:10: (Jim) I mean , you’re the guy the buck stops with, right? 16:13: (Phil Knight) yeah , it doesn’t st art with me though. 16:14: (Jim) No, but I mean , I don’t know who else to talk to. 16:15: (Phil Knight) Try Dusty Kidd. 16:17: (Jim) He doesn’t want to talk to me. 16:18: (Phil Knight) Well then , I guess you don’t get through then. 16:20: (Jim) But, you’re the man , I mean. 16:22: (Phil Knight) Thank you. 16:24: (Jim) You’re the man that needs to . 16:26: (Phil Knight) I appreciate your concern , but I’m having lunch with a friend , 16:29: and we’ve talked about it, and you’re.. 16:30: (Jim) I apologize for int errupting your lunch. I mean, I’ve come all the way from New Jersey to talk 16:33 : to you about this . 16:34: (Phil Knight) I’m not talking to you. 16:35: (Jim) I’ve g otten stonewalled at every turn; you know , the workers have asked for me 16:40 : that I try bringing you back to Indonesia to meet them in their homes not, not in the office in Jakarta. 16:49: (Phil Knight) Do you understand no? You just got a no. I’m not going to talk to you about it. 16:56: (Jim) Phil Knight , the CEO of Nike, 16:58: or Mich ael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Mia Hamm or any of the other people that are 17:02: really making a lot of money because of the way th at Nike does things 17:06: should care about these workers because they're human beings . 17: 16: (Leslie) W hen I see 17:1 7: pe ople like Tiger Woods get a $ 100 million just for wearing the clothes , 17:21: we ’re saying as a society , “like this one individual because [he or she] play s golf well and 17:26: is worth more than 700,000 people .” 17:41: (Jim) W e made up these 17:42: wage charts and have them look down at it , and they look up and say , 17:47: “Tiger Woods makes enough in a second 17:50: to buy me a house . W hy? 17:54: I work hard for the company to o.” 18:00 : What do you say to them? 18:01: “Well, hey , that's the system . Deal with it . 18:05: S uck i t up ; it’s capitalism —survival of the fittest . I guess you’re not the fittest. ” 18:1 3: N ike is in Indonesia for one reason —cheap labor. 18:17: (Leslie) It’s an ideology of maximizing profit at all cost s— 18:21: to humanity and nature . And it’s this entire 18:24: vicious cycle that start s with the head s of 18:28: the corporation s that want to make a great return on shareholders’ investment. 18:34: (Jim) S ome people say , “well , hey , that's the way things are ; that ’s the American w ay. 18:38: It’s capitalism ; that's th e American w ay.” No, the American w ay is 18:41: democracy ; that's what our country was founded on. 18:44: A belief that all people are equal —that there should be a respect for 18:48: for democracy , for human r ights , and for the protection of human life —that’s what we’re about as Americans. 18:53: W e spent the last year and a half traveling around the country , visiting 18:59: over a hundred schools , high schools , and universities — 19:01: 15,000 students . So , how are you feeli ng about the turnout? 19:04: (Student 1) I’m feeling pretty good about the turnout. 19:05: (Jim) What were you thinking about the turnout here ? 19:10: (Student 2) It’s great; this is the best possible turnout. 19:1 2: (Jim) A nd we try as best we can to 19:14: introduce them to these human being s. 19:17 : And say , as students, as 19:20: high school a thletes, college athletes , as consumers , you’ve got tremendous power . 19:25: A nd because we can't fly them over to Indonesia , we can bring Indonesia to them . 19:30: And if we can give them that spark, even if it's one or two 19:34: on that day , that's going to multiply . And eventually , 19:38: w e’ll reach this critical mass , and we'll have a great harvest . And the har vest will 19:42: be tru th, 19:43: and justice , and fairness for all people. 19:50: S omething's wrong here , and we ca n fix it; it’s a necessity . 19:55: (Leslie) The tipping point is now. 19:59: (Jim) At this point in our history , we need 20:00: a story like this to be told . 20:05: (background music)