Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 09, 2022

Now, Kim would be translating it all in real time.

This is gonna get interesting. Kim isn’t one to turn away from a situation like this.

Kim may incur the wrath of Nike!!!

Never worry, the corporate playbook has these situations covered.

What can Kim do all alone to rectify this situation?

And shouldn’t Mike be at her side??

And later, she’ll have a few words with him…

Not enough for Nike to charge a fortune for certain of its brands (Air Jordans). They have to maximize profits by having them made in sweatshops overseas where such practices are the norm.

I wonder it that manager ever worked at a McDonalds?

This story line probably has a ‘slice of life’ origin.

Looks Like they took the shackles off her legs before the visit

Sounds like how Amazon functions too.

Kim is nobody’s fool.

Go Kim!

Don’t take too long. This counts as her bathroom break.

At this time both Nike and Reebok were using sweatshop labor in Viet Nam.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/08/business/nike-shoe-plant-in-vietnam-is-called-unsafe-for-workers.html

Reebok cleaned up the factories making its product… Nike left the country… haven’t bought a Nike product since.

This is getting better and better. Even with the editorials!

Nike really Hated this sequence of strips.