Labor
Introduction
See the Empower Workers dashboard for an update on our performance
With a total footprint of more than 2.5 million people across our value chain and 1 million people in the contract factories we source from directly, labor remains among our greatest areas of human impact and opportunities to help bring about real change.
At the end of FY13, just more than 1 million people – with an average age of 32 – worked in the 785 factories that we source from directly. We believe another half million people work in the factories that make the materials used in our products, and more than 1 million people work in raw material production. (Some factories are vertically integrated, and play more than one of these roles.)
We believe that a successful contract factory can achieve even more success though more active engagement with workers as a source of innovation and quality, which also presents an opportunity for workers to benefit. This approach is part of the way we seek to do business through the progression of lean as a component of our “manufacturing revolution” (see Manufacturing Revolution).
- See more at: http://www.nikeresponsibility.com/report/content/chapter/labor#sthash.4KHyk0AO.dpuf