University of Wisconsin's chancellor dismissed calls Wednesday to end the school's athletics contract with Adidas AG over the mistreatment of workers in El Salvador but called on the company to remedy the situation. Chancellor John Wiley said Adidas should do more to help workers who were unfairly treated by a former subcontractor. He also said he would send an envoy to the country on a fact-finding mission next month. But Wiley said he would not follow an advisory committee's recommendation that the university end its exclusive contract with Adidas over abuses at Hermosa Manufacturing, which produced Adidas apparel bearing the Badgers' logo from 2000 to 2002.
See "Chancellor: Wis. won't end Adidas contract over factory abuses", Ryan J. Foley, Chicago Tribune, March 13, 2007