Nike needs to bring manufacturing jobs back to America

nobody wants to work in a shoe factory. It’s one step up from a slaughter house.

TeslaBots wearing American made shoes they have assembled are coming soon.

But it's good money...isn't it?

How about the ones made in Vietnam and Indonesia?

How about non-running-shoe stuffs made in China?

I thought you nuts were free marketeers? Shareholder value is king :-(

There are options out there built in US factories.

Cool wish. Even "cheap" Nikes would be $500 a pair with our minimum wage laws, unions, environmental regulations, etc.

Same with Apple products. You think Mac Books and iPhones are expensive? If they were made in America they'd be 3-4x more expensive.

Tradeoffs are real and inevitable.

Let me see your math?

When robotics evolves to the point that the quality and cost per unit to manufacture is better than humans in East Asia, then you will see shoes made here. The only human jobs created will be initial factory building, robot maintenance, and some logistics works.

The only other factor that would force a return to domestic manufacturing would be a giant spike in energy/transportation costs. If that happened, consumers wouldn't be buying shoes.

We simply do not have the plants in the US the can produce the volume of shoes like the factories in China and Viet Nam. This would require shoe companys to build huge production facilities to be able to compete and require a very large captiol investment.

Nike tried to manufacture shoes in renovated factories in New England in their early days. Even then it was clear that the math didn’t work.

I’m buy some of my clothes from locally made sources and they are sooooo expensive. I have to limit it to a few specialty items.

But think about the execs all making 6 figures & above. Those people shouldn't have to make less money even if they could create tons of middle class jobs & still live plenty comfortable.

I agree it would be cool if Nike could make some shoes in the US. They would be more expensive, so maybe they could be more "fashion" shoes rather than for running.

Because of feels?

Makes sense. Lots of cheap labor “moving” to US everyday.

Trump's new import tariffs will make it necessary.

A Chinese factory worker makes between $770 and $930 a month, which is less than $12,000 a year.

An American non-unionized factory would offer entry-level jobs at ~$25k/yeah. That is doubling the cost of manufacturing right off the bat.

Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American billionaire business magnate who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO.[1] As of December 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth at $45.0 billion

Would not want to hurt Phil's net worth by hiring workers paid a living wage in America.

Boycotting Nike and Adidas after their treatment of Ye and Kyrie Irving

Over half of their revenue comes from outside the US, why would they move manufacturing back to the US?

Or did you mean some of their manufacturing?

Would it make you feel better if it was assembled in the US of foreign made fabrics/product? Would that really even make a difference?