"Nike workers protest at Hayward Field, call for higher wages and better working conditions", 3 June 2025

Indonesian garment workers came to Oregon protesting...Nike, which was founded in the state, calling for higher wages and better working conditions.

Three garment workers at Nike factories in Indonesia travelled across the world to draw attention to their campaign, Fight the Heist, which outlines "wage theft, wage and hour violations and discrimination."...

On May 29, the three workers, along with representatives from Asia Floor Wage Alliance and Global Labor Justice, teamed up with members of the University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation in front of Hayward Field...

Nike did not respond to The Register-Guard's request for comment. UO stated that it had not received a list of demands from GTFF or other groups involved...

Nurhasanah said she works 8 hours a day, six days a week, before overtime, which averages 2 to 4 hours a day, depending on demand...

Worldwide, Nike and its contractors employ more than 1 million garment workers. Some make as little as $0.53 per hour, according to AFWA.

"We will keep going to campaign with other allies, so that our voice is stronger … until Nike sees us," Nurhasanah said....

According to AFWA, Nike garment workers were already working for wages "barely above the poverty line," but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, wages were slashed...

While Nike experienced a revenue loss in 2020, the company "came through the pandemic with the best fiscal quarter in its 50-year history, raking a profit of $1.5 billion on total sales of more than $12 billion," according to a report by Business Insider...

Hayward Field was built with a $200 million donation from Nike founder and former CEO Phil Knight in 2018...

Knight's net worth is $36.8 billion, according to Forbes, and his net worth peaked in 2021 at $49.9 billion. Knight, 87, and his wife have given a number of major gifts to UO over the years...

Sivalogananthan said AFWA has called Nike to the bargaining table, but Nike has not responded...

"We need to have a protection mechanism to protect the workers," Sivalogananthan said. "We want Nike to end up with us in an agreement, which we actually protect the workers from any sort of human rights crisis in the future."

On May 30, Portland-based Jobs with Justice, AFWA and GLJ filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Nike over "wage theft, wage and hour violations, discrimination, and other violations in Nike’s global supply chain."

The complaint called the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries to "[i]nvestigate and facilitate the payment of unpaid wages and penalties due to workers on Nike’s supply chain in Asia, including but not limited to wage theft that occurred during COVID-19 as detailed in the Money Heist Report."...