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33. So , they must be planning on buying New Balance

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Fri May 8, 2015, 01:36 PM

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Nike Says It Will Create 10,000 U.S. Jobs If Trade Deal Passes [View all] Purveyor May 2015 OP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Lead To A Global Race To The Bottom Purveyor May 2015 #1

+1. nt candelista May 2015 #7

Yep. That's the TPP plan! (I call BS on Nike) on point May 2015 #27

Yeah. 10,000 jobs if they can find 10,000 people who will work for 83 cents per hour. They are full GoneFishin May 2015 #31

US prison labor.PrisonS brag products "made in America" stuffmatters May 2015 #47

This what the TPP advocates have in store for U.S. workers. olegramps May 2015 #34

Uh huh...sure. SoapBox May 2015 #2

this is the same company that pays its outsourced workers pennies a day?? suuuuuure, I believe niyad May 2015 #3

A WHOLE 10K??? IF??? catnhatnh May 2015 #4

10k over 10 years, probably means they will lay off higher paid US workers and hire H1B peacebird May 2015 #9

Yeah. You will just have to move to Indonesia to accept Hassin Bin Sober May 2015 #5

Well, trying to see a silver lining, at least the cost of living is low. Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #24

Unless we get that promise in writing and under contract asiliveandbreathe May 2015 #6

I'm sure they will... Red Oak May 2015 #8

Nike is lying. SamKnause May 2015 #10

Bull* cough* oh screw it. Bull shit. Autumn May 2015 #11

Disgusting pandering blackspade May 2015 #12

Why not just hire them now? If there's a loss, take it from the CEO's salary arcane1 May 2015 #13

Maybe. bluedigger May 2015 #14

"26,000 employees in the United States, but 330,000 in Vietnam" LOL jtuck004 May 2015 #15

while laying off 11,000.... unblock May 2015 #16

That means 1k people a year. People die, quit, retire, etc and they would hire that many patricia92243 May 2015 #17

If 1 in 356 people in the company die each year - that would account for it. Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #25

10K below poverty jobs Geronimoe May 2015 #18

Wow, we have Nike's word on it Jack Rabbit May 2015 #19

Doesn't specify that these will be NEW jobs. GeorgeGist May 2015 #20

I don't believe it for a second A Little Weird May 2015 #21

If we stop TPP we'll save 330,000 jobs! yallerdawg May 2015 #22

I don't believe it one f*&king minute, period.....n/t Hotler May 2015 #23

A) I Don't Trust Them fredamae May 2015 #26

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....... Coventina May 2015 #28

Bullshit. closeupready May 2015 #29

Nike gets 330,000 and amerika gets 10,000 in next 10 years zstat May 2015 #30

Could be 10,000 jobs selling shoes working for straight commission. candelista May 2015 #32

So , they must be planning on buying New Balance bahrbearian May 2015 #33

Ooooooh, a whole 10,000? Vinca May 2015 #35

No, Nike said it will create _up to_ 10,000 US jobs jeff47 May 2015 #36

Over ten years! Beauregard May 2015 #37

That's over 10 years, sulphurdunn May 2015 #38

Nike Doesn't Pay Fair Share of Taxes in Oregon! McKim May 2015 #39

Nike Says It Will Create 10,000 U.S. Jobs If Trade Deal Passes The CCC May 2015 #40

"Reducing tariffs would allow it to invest in manufactiring in the United States..." Orsino May 2015 #41

Suuure they will. historylovr May 2015 #42

Yep. All of those lazy, unemployed 12-year-olds. n/t christx30 May 2015 #43

Fuck Nike! Their shoes suck! d_legendary1 May 2015 #44

10k jobs over 10 years? BFD TexasBushwhacker May 2015 #45

Yeah, but in what country? rocktivity May 2015 #46

So they will be paying those people $75 a month like they do in Vietnam? Warren Stupidity May 2015 #48

thats good to make more shoes IN the usa, however the 10,000 can NOT be 50 cent an hour USA prison Sunlei May 2015 #49

perhaps in retail. open a shitload of Nike stores or mandate a Nike specialist at big retailers who dembotoz May 2015 #50

Just like the Keystone pipeline jobs. Imaginary. And located elsewhere if they exist at all. Period. bravenak May 2015 #51

make that 300,000 handmade34 May 2015 #52