January 2001

Workers Occupy Mexican Nike Factory
The shoddy and exploitative nature of corporate globalisation has been brought into sharp relief once again by a labour dispute in the city of Atlixco de Puebla in Southern Mexico which has resulted in the occupation of a Nike plant by its workforce. Kukdong International is a Korean-owned Nike subsidiary which also operates plants in Indonesia and Brazil, and produces Nike apparel for export to universities in the United States. On Tuesday, 9 January, 800 workers went on strike at Kukdong International's Mexican plant and then proceeded to take control of their workplace.