Factory: PT Kizone
Key Buyers: adidas, Dallas Cowboys, Green Textile, Nike
Last Updated: 2013
Case Summary
The owner of PT Kizone fled Indonesia in Janaury 2011 without paying workers $3.3 million in legally mandated severance. More than 2,800 workers were affected.
Read More:
- Distribution of Funds to PT Kizone Workers as per the Union’s Agreement with adidas – August 9, 2013
- Impact of Nonpayment of Severance on Families of PT Kizone Workers – March 26, 2013
- PT Kizone: adidas’ Ongoing Failure to Remediate – October 23, 2012
- WRC Comments on adidas’ Recent Communication to Universities re PT Kizone – October 5, 2012
- Letter from Kizone Union to adidas – July 8, 2012
- Letter from Kizone Union to adidas – June 6, 2012
- WRC Update Report re PT Kizone (Indonesia) – May 15, 2012
- Letter from Kizone Union to adidas – April 4, 2012
- WRC Assessment re PT Kizone (Indonesia) – January 18, 2012
- WRC Update: Adidas’ Relationship with PT Kizone – January 5, 2012
- WRC Update – PT Kizone – November 21, 2011
- Workers at PT Kizone Still Owed $1.8 Million; No Action from adidas and Dallas Cowboys – July 26, 2011
- WRC Update: PT Kizone (Indonesia) – June 10, 2011
- Workers Owed $2.3 Million by Supplier to Nike, adidas, Dallas Cowboys – May 9, 2011
In the News:
- “US University Pressures Indonesian Companies to Compensate Workers,” The Jakarta Globe – February 15, 2012
- “On Campus: UW-Madison Will Give Adidas Until Feb. 2 to Respond to Allegations,” Wisconsin State Journal – January 20, 2012
- “Ward: Adidas Has Two Weeks to Reply to Labor Allegations,” The Badger Herald – January 20, 2012
- “Campus Connection: Sweatshop Allegations Against Adidas Will Test UW-Madison,” The Capital Times – January 19, 2012