Unethical Company
Adidas:-
Adidas is the world’s second-largest manufacturer of sportswear after Nike. Like its competitor, the brand has been known for using cheap production via sweatshops and child labor to become the multinational corporation it is today. Indeed, it seems that all corporate-brand sportswear garments are made by exploiting workers and ignoring basic human rights.
In another commonality of the sportswear industry, Adidas garments undergo several chemical treatments to make them more colorful, flexible, durable, or water-repellant. Over the years, these processes have polluted the waters and are horrible for local ecosystems.
Public outrage over this prompted a pledge from the brand to rectify the issue, committing to zero discharge of hazardous chemicals by 2020. The most recent Chemical Footprint progress report Adidas has available is from April 2019. Unfortunately, this document is only to inform the public of what implementations have been made, and that communication is steady throughout the supply chain. It has no information on how effective and successful anything has been.
Victoria’s Secret:-
Victoria’s Secret has a laundry list of alledged unethical behavior, including child labor, formaldehyde lawsuits, and a “toxic culture of sexual harassment” of its models. The brand is not transparent about all the factories they work with, but it is known that they use sweatshops in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Jordan.
These workers are underpaid and made to work over 14 hours a day in some cases. And now they have shown up on the list of 83 companies using forced labor by Uyghurs.
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