Oregonian business reporter, mostly covering sportswear companies. Formers: Business Insider, Knight-Bagehot, Portland Business Journal. Get in touch: mkish@oregonian.com or 503-221-4386.
A federal jury on Wednesday awarded a former Nike employee $19,730.52 in economic damages and at least $7.5 million in punitive damages after it found Nike discriminated against her by paying her less than her male peers and promoting her more slowly. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
Jury orders Nike to pay at least $7.5 million in punitive damages in sex discrimination caseAn eight-person jury on Tuesday ruled in Heather Hender’s favor after an acrimonious six-day trial.www.oregonlive.com
Nike on Thursday announced 1,400 layoffs, mostly technology workers in the company's operations division, as CEO Elliott Hill's turnaround work continues: www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
Nike announces 1,400 layoffs, mostly in operations and technologyThis is the fourth consecutive year of significant layoffs at Nike. The company said the layoffs are part of an ongoing turnaround effort.www.oregonlive.com
NEW: Nike says its factory workers should earn enough to pay their basic needs and have some money left over. In Indonesia, its factory workforce has shrunk where the minimum wage is considered enough to live on. And it has grown, dramatically, where the opposite is true.
Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of IndonesiaAfter moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...www.propublica.orgNike says factory workers should earn enough to pay their basic expenses and have some money left over. But its expansion in Indonesia over the last decade has directly undermined this goal, an analysis by @propublica.org and @oregonian.com found. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
www.oregonlive.comFor @oregonian.com and @propublica.org: The average worker at suppliers that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers I spoke with in Indonesia, Nike’s second-largest production hub, said they made that much. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
Nike says its factory workers make nearly double the minimum wage. In Indonesia, workers say, ‘It’s not true’The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with roughly 100 workers in Nike’s second-largest production hub. None said they made anywhere near twice the minimum wage.www.oregonlive.com
An ugly injury ended his career but Marcus Lattimore could always fall back on being a South Carolina football icon. But after a few years, he started to ask: "Is this all it's gonna be for me?" He moved to Oregon, found a home and found his voice — remarkably, as a poet. New at @oregonian.com:
Football made him a star. Poetry, and Portland, made him whole. | Bill OramAfter the world watched him suffer a career-ending injury, the former NFL draft pick says Portland gave him his life back.www.oregonlive.comOHSU on Thursday announced a $2 billion gift from Phil and Penny Knight that could "revolutionize" cancer care:
Phil and Penny Knight pledge $2 billion to OHSU to ‘revolutionize’ cancer careThe charitable donation, one of the largest in higher education and state history, will support cancer research.www.oregonlive.comColumbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle said he would be interested in joining Tom Dundon's ownership group “if it helped to keep the team here." He told @matthewkish.bsky.social that he would represent only a "tiny speck" of overall investment. www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2025...
Trail Blazers buyer wants more local investors. One Oregon billionaire is interestedIt’s unclear how many Oregonians could ultimately own part of Portland’s NBA team.www.oregonlive.com
Good explainer. How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Nike, Its Workers and Prices @matthewkish.bsky.social @oregonian.com
How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Nike and Its WorkersThe sportswear company offers a case study in the ripple effects of the global trade war, including how workers can get squeezed.www.propublica.orgLots of focus on the trade war's impact on big industry. Here's @matthewkish.bsky.social on how the tariffs are clobbering Oregon small businesses. “The reality is everything is just on hold...If this does not get sorted out in the next 90, 120 days, we will end up having nothing to sell.”
How Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have rattled Oregon small businessesA 90-day pause on most new tariffs hasn’t calmed fears that some companies could be wiped out.www.oregonlive.com
"The announcement body slammed the sportswear industry, one of Oregon’s economic engines, and one without an easy answer to Trump’s steep new surcharges on products imported from Asian countries," via @matthewkish.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
‘Tariff tantrum’ will squeeze Oregon’s sneaker businessPresident Trump this week announced steep surcharges on products from countries where Nike and others make athletic footwear and apparel.www.oregonlive.com
People say information wants to be free, but the truth is that if @jamiebgoldberg.bsky.social didn't track down these facts, the public would never know. Watchdog reporting like this is why local news matters
Jamie GoldbergHow Oregon government officials scored annual Hawaii trips and 5-star lodging www.oregonlive.com/watchdog/202...
Weeks before an expected trial, and days after Nike's female-focused Super Bowl ad, a sweeping sex discrimination lawsuit against the company has tentatively settled, likely ending a yearslong legal fight about its treatment of women. @matthewkish.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
Nike settles sweeping sex discrimination lawsuitThe case was scheduled for trial next month. The settlement includes the recognition of an unspecified class of plaintiffs.www.oregonlive.comHundreds of Northern California investors who allege Umpqua Bank backed a customer's $450 million Ponzi scheme will make their case in a California courtroom next week. @matthewkish.bsky.social reports:
Class action against Umpqua Bank over customer’s Ponzi scheme heads to trial next weekPlaintiffs hope to recover upwards of $360 million. The bank plans to “vigorously” defend itself.www.oregonlive.com
