Cornell University Ends Clothing Deal With Adidas Over Labor Rights

ecouterre.com 28 Sep '12, 10pm

Cornell University Ends Clothing Deal With Adidas Over Labor Rights

As questions continue to surface about Adidas’s treatment of factory workers overseas, Cornell University has become the first U.S. university in history to sever business ties with the sportswear manufacturer over labor rights. In a letter to Adidas earlier this month, Cornell President David Skorton expressed “great concern” about reports that the company owed more than $3 million in severance pay to 2,800 workers after the illegal closure of a factory in Indonesia in April 2011.

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