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Factory Paying Human Worker to Watch Robot Worker All Day

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Nike says its factory workers make nearly double the minimum wage. In Indonesia, workers say, ‘It’s not true’

Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. It’s a ...
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I went from factory worker to software engineer after 3D-printing a fix that impressed my boss. Here's my top tip for getting promoted.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Flint, 27, a software engineer at an oven manufacturing factory near Seattle, Washington. His employment and progression has been verified ...
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She was a key voice of the 1990s labor movement in Nike’s Indonesia factories. Today she relies on donations from abroad

Once a month, American labor activist Jim Keady logs into Remitly, an app for transferring money abroad, at his New Jersey home and sends $100 to a former Nike factory worker in Indonesia. Cicih ...
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Reinventing the Factory Floor: Can It Attract a Younger Generation of Workers?

Eddy Azad believes the new wave of robotics is remaking the factory floor into an environment that promises to attract a new generation of human workers.
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I went from factory worker to software engineer after 3D-printing a fix that impressed my boss. Here's my top tip for getting promoted.

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