Sen. Hawley to LeBron James, NBA: ‘You are profiting off slave labor in China’
“I would challenge the NBA, Adam Silver, all the endorsers of Nike products like LeBron to take a pledge that they will be slave free, that they will not use in their product lines slave labor,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said on Fox News on Tuesday.
Hawley introduced the Slave-Free Business Certification Act, which would “increase corporate supply chain disclosure requirements, mandates regular audits, requires chief executive officers to certify that their companies’ supply chains do not rely on forced, slave labor, and creates penalties for firms that fail basic minimum standards for human rights.”
Executives build woke, progressive brands for US consumers, but happily outsource labor to Chinese concentration camps
— Senator Hawley Press Office (@SenHawleyPress) July 21, 2020
Sen. Hawley is calling on American businesses making products overseas to pledge they are #SlaveFree – that they DO NOT and WILL NOT rely on forced slave labor pic.twitter.com/DKAwuHTzXy
Corporate America and the celebrities that hawk their products have been playing this game for a long time – talk up corporate social responsibility and social justice at home while making millions of dollars off the slave labor that assembles their products. Executives build woke, progressive brands for American consumers, but happily outsource labor to Chinese concentration camps, all just to save a few bucks,” said Hawley in a statement.
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