Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The University of Wisconsin-Madison cancelled its licensing agreement with Nike Inc. on Apr. 9th, becoming the first university to respond directly to the company’s recent labor violations in Honduras. According to Chancellor Biddy Martin, former provost of Cornell University, Nike did not adequately support Honduran workers after two factories shut down abruptly in Jan. 2009.

While Nike did not own the factories, located in Chomala and San Pedro Sula, it hired them as suppliers to produce its apparel…More from Cornell University here.

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Cornell’s newly-founded Licensing Oversight Committee (LOC) hit the ground running in its first meeting, pledging to renew business relations with Russell Athletics and investigating the abuses alleged by two aggrieved former Honduran workers for Nike, both of whom spoke at the University on Tuesday…In a press release, the Cornell Students Against Sweatshops said that the LOC was created in response to CSAS’s “Just Do It” campaign, which demands Nike pay “over $2.1 million in severance to Honduran workers … [for] legally mandated service compensation.”Read news here

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A group of University of Wisconsin students is calling for the university to drop its contract with Nike.

Today the students are holding a protest at 4 pm due to workers’ rights violations at two of Nike’s factories in Honduras.

Chancellor Biddy Martin gave Nike four months to change its practices. This was back in November, and now students say that time is up and they’re calling on Martin to hold the company accountable.

Nike has a license to use the University’s logo on its merchandise, but most stores on campus have stopped carrying the Nike apparel.

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