{"id":1136,"date":"2025-04-16T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:49:28","slug":"students-protest-nyus-contract-with-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/students-protest-nyus-contract-with-nike\/","title":{"rendered":"Students protest NYU\u2019s contract with Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around two dozen members of NYU\u2019s chapter of Students for International Labor Solidarity <\/span>demanded that the university slash its contract with Nike and publicly condemn the company for alleged wage theft. In speeches outside the Kimmel Center for University Life, students cited that Nike has reportedly withheld employees\u2019 salaries at a Thailand factory that provides the NYU Bookstore with branded merchandise.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a rally on Monday afternoon, students chanted \u201cNike steals, NYU knows\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s outrageous, stolen wages,\u201d sang an original song and performed poetry. NYU SILS member David Ramirez said that despite the group\u2019s constant attempts to communicate with <\/span>Associate Vice President<\/span> of Campus Services Owen Moore, students have received limited response from <\/span>administrators<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to get a response and hear him be like, \u2018Alright, let\u2019s talk about cutting this contract \u2014 let\u2019s make efforts and actually help these workers get paid,\u2019\u201d Ramirez said in an interview with WSN. \u201cWe want some communication from administration to show that they actually are gonna listen to their students.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers claimed that Nike agreed to pay affected workers $200,000 after <\/span>withholding over $900,000 in wages<\/span><\/a>, following protests against the company across U.S. universities. This academic year, chapters of SILS at colleges including <\/span>Syracuse University<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>University of California, Berkeley<\/span><\/a> have protested their schools\u2019 ties with Nike. NYU SILS representative Sophia Pandya told WSN that the group will continue to organize demonstrations and communicate with administrators until Nike completely reimburses the Thailand factory employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2021, the NYU-affiliated Workers Rights Consortium reported that Nike withheld over 3,000 workers\u2019 wages at Hong Seng Knitting \u2014 the factory in Bangkok that produces Nike apparel \u2014 and ignored \u201coverwhelming evidence of worker coercion.\u201d Although the employees were allegedly not compensated at all after the factory closed in 2020, according to <\/span>Thai law<\/span><\/a>, employers were required to compensate temporary workers with reduced wages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students have been calling on Moore and athletics director Jake Olkkola to cut NYU\u2019s contract with Nike since October 2023 through demonstrations and <\/span>frequent letter deliveries<\/span><\/a> to university leadership. Administrators requested Nike to refute the wage theft accusations by May 1, 2024 and told SILS members that Nike\u2019s response conveyed it had conducted independent investigations and had not violated any laws.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe must stand together now more than ever \u2014 show your support to these workers and show support to your students,\u201d a SILS representative said to the crowd. \u201cIt\u2019s up to us, the students, the people, to come together and make things right.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Eva Mundo at news@nyunews.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This story Students protest NYU\u2019s contract with Nike<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around two dozen members of NYU\u2019s chapter of Students for International Labor Solidarity demanded that the university slash its contract with Nike and publicly condemn the company for alleged wage theft. In speeches outside the Kimmel Center for University Life, students cited that Nike has reportedly withheld employees\u2019 salaries at a Thailand factory that provides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}