May 5, 2000

Nike Chief Ends Giving to U. of Oregon to Protest Its Tie to Anti-Sweatshop Group

By KIT LIVELY

The chairman of Nike Inc., Philip H. Knight, said last week that he will give no more money to his alma mater, the University of Oregon, because it plans to join the Worker Rights Consortium, a new anti-sweatshop group.

Nike, based in Beaverton, Ore., has been an outspoken opponent of the consortium, an organization supported primarily by students and labor groups, which has excluded manufacturers from its organizational efforts.

"To accept the

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