http://ethisphere.com/how-nike-is-changing-the-world-one-factory-at-a-time/

Many people accuse Apple of not doing enough to enforce their supplier code of conduct. Their response in the last half decade has been to audit their suppliers (with more audits happening each year). However, this may not be enough. Among the comments to an article criticizing the poor efforts of electronics companies, one reader used Nike as an example of a company working together with its suppliers to improve conditions. Amazed that a company seemed to know something Apple didn’t, I looked more into it.

In fact, the giant multinational has gone far beyond merely auditing its suppliers and giving them a slap on the wrist for violations. They work together with the companies and try to understand the issues that lead to excessive overtime and poor working conditions. By educating suppliers on ways in which more humane conditions actually improve the bottom line and thinking through more flexible purchasing decisions on their part, Nike has concretely set out to improve the working conditions in its many third-world factories. Perhaps, Apple could spare a sliver of is $100 Billion of cash to engage more with suppliers as Nike is doing.