These workers must work 10-12 hours every day, sometimes until midnight. Many workers have their labor rights suppressed and violated. In some cases, workers were laid off from the factory and the work was subcontracted to factories where workers receive lower wages and have no legal protection. Instead of receiving legal overtime pay, workers at the Lop Buri factory, piecework. In addition, thousands of Thai migrant workers are producing Nike products under abysmal conditions in Taiwan.
Workers often have to work for years just to pay off their traveling and installment costs.
Many women workers also face pain when urinating. I requested the supervisor to send me to the hospital, but I have to wait for nearly one hour until there were two more sick workers to fill the car before it can take off to the hospital. I have to stay in the hospital for six days without any visit from the company management. Thai workers receive only enough to survive each day, they cannot save, and Thailand has no unemployment compensation scheme. A Thai worker would have to work for 14,000 days, or 38 years, to receive the same amount.