"Workers at China’s largest athletic shoe maker are poised for another historic strike", 30th March 2015

...thousands of workers at...Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings, went on strike again this month, protesting slashed salaries and unpaid benefits...Protest organizers told Quartz they went back to work late last week, but have set a deadline of tomorrow (March 31) for the company to respond, or they will escalate their protests...[Yue Yuen] is one of the world’s largest shoe manufacturers, and churns out more than 300 million pairs of sports shoes a year, an estimated one-fifth of the world’s sports and casual-wear shoes. Clients include Nike, Adidas, Timberland, Puma and Converse...“None of the facilities manufacturing product for the Adidas Group has been involved in the recent strikes,” an Adidas spokeswoman told Quartz. Nike did not immediately respond to questions...