2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 17, 2001 NATION/WORLD NIKE Continued from Page 1 Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights, said the committee hasn't discussed the CLC agreement. "The committee hasn't acted on this - it's something we need to talk about," Root said. Bollinger and the committee "spoke (yesterday) morning about some of the differences between (the CLC) and the draft code," Root said. "There's some differences in the wording and in the rights allowed to freedom of association and collective bargaining, but I think the clearest difference is in hours of work. "An employer can require up to 60 hours of mandatory work, and I think the CLC allows an exception for extra- ordinary circumstances - it allows people to go over that 60. "One person can look at it and say it is a legitimate recognition of extraordi- nary circumstances, one person could say it opens it up for abuses." RC senior and Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality member Peter Romer-Friedman said the University should have adopted prior versions of the committee's code instead of the CLC version. "It's a slap in the face to the workers who are on strike including pregnant women who were brutally beaten by police," he said, referring to an appar- ent strike that began last week at a Nike factory in Puebla, Mexico, that produces University-licensed apparel. SOLE claims strike-breaking police were used to end an attempt at collec- tive bargaining. "Nike says this is human rights, but we disagree," Romer-Friedman said. Romer-Friedman offered resolutions at the Michigan Student Assembly meeting last night condemning the alleged use of strike-breakers in Mexi- co and to advocate that the University implement its recently approved work- ers rights code. Both passed. University General Counsel Marvin Krislov said the CLC code had been adopted early in the Nike negotiations. "We can draft codes from now until summer, but now we need to have something that is enforced." Nike Director of College Sports Mar- keting Kit Morris declined to comment on the specifics of the deal or how it rates with other collegiate Nike deals. "It reflects the high value we place on the University as a partner and the stature U of M has in the world of higher education and the world of sports,' Morris said. Morris also responded to questions raised about Nike's human rights prac- tices. "In terms of labor and human rights issues, Nike was the first com- pany in our industry to establish a labor standards code of conduct," he said. "We established unilaterally higher safety standards for people working in our factories, we estab- lished higher clean air standards by eliminating the use of solvent-based adhesives in our shoes, we have raised wages 100 percent in Indonesia over the past year." Nike Director of Global Issues Man- agement Vada Manager said the average wage of an Indonesian Nike factory worker in 1998 was $49 per month. Manager also responded to the com- plants of worker's rights groups. "I think that may be a problem for a small segment of the university popu- lation,"he said. Krislov, Bollinger and Martin all agreed the contract was a victory, pointing out that Nike agreed to make full yearly financial disclosures on the contract, another first for the company. "Nike is very concerned with setting a corporate precedent," Krislov said. "All campuses will want a similar deal on the human rights side. We are in a position to take some leadership. This was a compromise they felt they could live with." Bollinger and Krislov agreed that there was no plan of action in the event of a complaint such as the Kukdong strike, but that action would be taken. "Because we do not have an agreed upon framework does not mean we would do nothing," Bollinger said. "We're not there yet. This is a process that's going to take years to develop and refine." "We're going to take any credible claims very seriously," Krislov said. "We've spent a lot of money and time on the whole enterprise and I think there's a commitment." The University first signed a dea with Nike to outfit teams and license apparel in 1994, but Nike has provided football apparel since the 1980s. The six-year deal paid 5600,000 per year to the University and ended with a tota value of S11 million including equip- ment and retail royalties. University regents were concerned after the 1994 deal that they had no been properly consulted, but expressed a conciliatory air yesterday. "I'm happy that it's been executed,' said Regent Dan Horning (R-Grand Haven). "It will help the athleti department immensely." - Dail Staff Reporters Lisa Koiva an Carie Thorson contributed to this report t ACRS TH E NATION Ashcroft begins confirmation hearings WASHINGTON - Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft yesterday defended his ability to separate personal beliefs from the duties of the office, saying his quarter-century in public life demonstrates that he can uphold laws that conflict with his opinions and religious faith. At the opening day of his confirmation hearing as President-elect George W. Bush's most controversial nominee, Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Com tee that as Missouri's attorney general and governor, he frequently put aside his own beliefs to enforce and uphold the laws. Ashcroft cited the central Supreme Court decision that upholds a woman's right to an abortion, Roe v. Wade, as a case he believes was "wrongly decided" as an original matter but now is the "settled law of the land" that he would be duty-bound to uphold. "I am personally opposed to abortion. But ... I well understand that the role of attorney general is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it," the former Missouri senator told the committee, on which he served until his re-election defeat in November. In a dramatic display capping his opening statement, Ashcroft raised his right hand and pledged "as a man of faith, I take my word and my inteO- ty seriously, so when I swear to uphold the law, I will keep my oath, so help me God." U I I WHERE IN THE WORLD WILL YOU GO THIS SUMMER? Discover the possibilities at the Summer Study Abroad Fair TOMORROW in the Pendleton Room (in the Michigan Union) 3 to 5 pm AfI V. Clinton's final budget showed what wo government's bo shows hefty surplus decade if all progra edy and grew only at th c WASHINGTON - President Clin- Under these ass ton issued a farewell budget yesterday included no new pol d projecting nearly $2.5 trillion in non- ton projected the ov . 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Laurent Kabila, the ruler of this vast "From three sour and troubled nation, died yesterday la has most likelyb after being shot, his U.S. spokesman Belgian Foreign Afl said. The shooting came during a coup Michel said in Brus attempt, Congo officials said. sis meeting with the "He's died," said John Aycoth, a lob- byist and public relations consultant E t a who acts as Kabila's spokesman in the E hq9a1K United States. toll approa Aycoth, speaking by telephone from Durham, N.C., said he had spoken to top SANTA TECLA level Congolese officials in Kinshasa Bulldozers plowed1 who had confirmed Kabila's death. age of an earthqua The shooting could throw this vast yesterday after snif Central African country into further beat detectors failed turmoil. Congo has been convulsed attempt to locate an since rebels launched a civil war this Salvadoran town against Kabila more than two years The death toll r ago. 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