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New Playfair 2012 leaflet: Campaigning for a sweat-free Olympics 2012
Poverty wages, child labour, union busting and up to 16-hour working days -all to make the Olympic dream come true. But it shouldn’t be this way. Find out more about the issues facing workers and how you can get involved in the Playfair 2012 campaign (order copies of the leaflet online)
VIDEO: The real cost of flexibility for workers
Visit www.clearingthehurdles.org for more information
What is Decent Work – ILO animation
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dw/index.html
Give Girls a Chance
TUC report for the World Day Against Child Labour
June 2009 17-page report
http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-16597-f0.pdf
Olympics and workers’ rights: the story so far (2007)
By Playfair 2012, 15 page report
This report discusses ethical trading experiences at past sporting events, as well as explaining how Olympic sportswear sponsorship workers. It sets out our case that Olympic organisations, especially London 2012, should do much more on workers’ rights.
Clearing the hurdles
By Play Fair 2008, 64-page report
Based on interviews with 320 workers in China, India, Thailand and Indonesia, this report analyses the problems faced by garment workers and makes detailed recommendations to overcome them. Playfair 2008, April 2008.
No medal for the Olympics
By Playfair 2008, 32-page report
Based on detailed research undertaken inside China into working conditions in four factories making 2008 Olympic bags, headgear, stationery and other products, this report reveals that factory owners are falsifying employment records, and forcing workers to lie about their wages and conditions. It shows evidence of children as young as 12 years old, adults earning 14p per hour (half the legal minimum wage in China), and employees made to work up to 15 hours per day, seven days a week producing Olympic merchandise.
http://www.playfair2008.org/docs/playfair_2008-report.pdf
Playfair at the Olympics
By Playfair 2004, 41-page report
This report asks fundamental questions about the global sportswear industry – questions that go to the heart of debates on poverty, workers’ rights, trade, and globalisation. ‘Olympism’, in the words of the Olympic Charter, ‘seeks to create a way of life based on … respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.’ This report shows that the business practices of major sportswear companies violate both the spirit and the letter of the Charter. Yet the Olympics movement, particularly the International Olympics Committee, has been remarkably silent in the face of these contraventions.
http://www.cleanclothes.org/resources/ccc/working-conditions/play-fair-at-the-olympics-report
Sweet FA? Football Associations, workers’ rights and the World Cup.
TUC & Labour Behind the Label, 2006. 32-page report
http://www.tuc.org.uk/extras/sweetfa.pdf
Offside! Labor rights and sportswear production in Asia
Oxfam 2006, 108-page report
As global sports brands crank up their advertising for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, sportswear workers in Asia are struggling to earn a living. Oxfam International’s report “Offside! Labor Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia” examines how sports brands are tackling the problem of sweatshops in their industry with a particular focus on workers’ freedom to form and join trade unions.
The report features nine case studies that document how sports brands have responded to evidence of labor rights abuses in particular factories
http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/offside_labor_report
Labour Behind the Label
http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/resources
The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation
http://www.itglwf.org/DisplayDocument.aspx?idarticle=1158&langue=2
The International Trades Union Congress
http://www.ituc-csi.org/-play-fair-2008-.html
The Clean Clothes Campaign
http://www.cleanclothes.org/resources/ccc
War on Want
http://lovefashionhatesweatshops.org/index.php/home
Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/looking_behind_the_logo/