Latest news

To stay up-to-date with our worker's rights campaign, subscribe to NikeWatch News using the form to the right.

Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Over time or over it? Why workers need a living wage now

During Ramadan—the Islamic month of fasting— footwear worker Sewani has a lot on her mind.

Read more

Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Pacific Brands listens to your letters

After receiving letters from hundreds of individuals, Pacific Brands met with Oxfam Australia in August to discuss the company’s labour rights program.

Read more

Former outworker and advocate Lien Ho with NSW FairWear Coordinator, Amity Lynch

Photo: Jessica Dunn/OxfamAUS

Support FairWear in Australian schools

Many school uniforms are made by women working from home in Australia. We talk to Vietnamese born Lien Ho, a former Sydney-based outworker who knows first-hand the realities of making clothes from home.

Read more

Suparjo. Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Former union leader Suparjo thanks supporters

For years Suparjo struggled to find new work following his unfair dismissal from an adidas supplier factory. In a new short film, Suparjo shares this story with you, explaining why brands should protect the rights of workers.

Read more

USAS logo

Student and worker campaign success: Nike workers in Honduras paid their dues

Following intense pressure by a largely student and workers lead campaign, Nike has agreed to fund a relief fund for laid-off workers in Honduras.

Read more

Campaign history: how students made Nike lift their game

Media coverage of victory

Photo: Tim Herbert/OxfamAUS

Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Imagine life in my shoes

After years sewing shoes for a famous sportswear brand, quietly spoken 24-year-old Indonesian factory worker Sewani has decided to speak out. For the next 12 weeks Sewani will give you an insight into her everyday life via the In My Shoes blog.

Read more

OxfamAUS

Photos: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

Union leaders go live on adidas campaign

Suwandi knows that 5 years is a long time to wait to find work. He and 32 other union leaders at an adidas supplier factory were illegally sacked in 2005 after they held a strike for better wages.

Read more




Conditions of use

When you contribute content to our site, you retain ownership of the copyright. You also grant permission to Oxfam Australia to display and distribute your content, and to use it for any promotional purpose, without remuneration, compensation, or payment of royalties.

In addition, you are responsible for the content of your material. Oxfam Australia takes no responsibility for the content of any messages or information posted by contributors.

Oxfam Australia retains the right, in our sole discretion, to review, edit or delete any material which we deem to be illegal, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

 

Join our campaign

Keep track of what brands are doing and find out the latest labour rights news. Subscribe to NikeWatch News.

  1. Privacy Policy

NikeWatch News: archive

Read recent issues of NikeWatch News below.