The man in charge of overseeing Adidas’s labor and environmental standards outlined the company’s factory assessment programs and rules designed to protect workers last night in a presentation at the Michigan League.
The University signed a $7.5 million per year contract with Adidas in June to make the German company the University’s exclusive athletic apparel provider. Adidas has come under fire at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison for alleged labor violations.
Gregg Nebel cited Adidas’s improved Key Performance Indicator – a rating system that evaluates a factory’s level of worker-management communication, factory compliance and industrial relations – as evidence of his company’s tougher labor monitoring standards.