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Nike Welcomes President Obama to Its World Headquarters
2015-05-08 17:30:56| Apparel - Topix.net
Beaverton, Ore. NIKE, Inc. today welcomes President Obama to its World Headquarters in support of Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership .
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To Sell His Trade Agenda, the President Turns to ... Nike?
2015-05-08 03:32:57| Footwear - Topix.net
Nike is great at making iconic commercials and catchy slogans, but it's not really great at making American manufacturing jobs. That's why the company's Beaverton, Oregon campus is a strange place for President Obama to make a forceful argument in favor of free trade agreements.
Obama faces trade protests at Nike: "Just don't do it"
2015-05-07 19:11:34| Footwear - Topix.net
"Just don't do it," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a critic of the trade pact who announced his bid this week for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. "Nike epitomizes why disastrous unfettered free-trade policies during the past four decades have failed American workers, eroded our manufacturing base and increased income and wealth inequality in this country," Sanders wrote to Obama urging him to cancel the visit.
Obama puts Nike in trade spotlight despite sweatshop stigma of past
2015-05-07 05:08:50| Apparel - Topix.net
President Barack Obama will make a high-profile pitch for a Pacific trade deal he promises will protect workers on Friday at Nike Inc, a company once reviled for using Asian sweatshops to make its famous sneakers. In choosing the company's Oregon headquarters as the backdrop for his message, Obama risks reminding people of global trade's downside just when he needs to convince nervous Democrats to back the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership , a key plank of the administration's strategic pivot to Asia.
Obama and Nike: Is company a model on trade -- or a cautionary tale?
2015-05-06 15:03:06| Footwear - Topix.net
When President Barack Obama visits Nike on Friday he will see the epitome of what free trade is supposed to bring to American business in the 21st century. Nike is the largest seller of sports footwear and apparel in the world, with $27.8 billion in sales.
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