A message from Playfair 2012, campaigning for a sweat free Olympics.
From Turkey to London 2012, campaigning for a sweat-free Olympics
Workers making sportswear for the major brands should have their rights respected. But this continues to be a distant reality for many workers. With the London Games just around the corner, Olympic values like respect, equality and fair play, should extend to the workers who help make the Games possible.
Interview with Asalettin Arslanoglu, Director of Organising, Textile, Knitting and Clothing Workers’ Union of Turkey (TEKSIF)
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A message from Playfair 2012, campaigning for a sweat free Olympics.
Qatar: No World Cup without labour rights
Brussels, 17 November 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The International Trade Union Confederation, Building and Wood Workers International and the Swiss Union Unia met with FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke at FIFA headquarters today, to inform him that unless Qatar upholds labour rights, the international trade union movement will campaign against the 2022 World Cup being held there.
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A message from Playfair 2012, campaigning for a sweat free Olympics.
Workers supplying Olympic sponsor have union crushed
Former Adidas supplier sacked Turkish workers fighting to improve their conditions, it is claimed Article by Jerome Taylor published in The Independent on Tuesday 25th October.
Workers at a Turkish factory supplying clothing material for the Olympics have spoken out about a campaign of intimidation and union-breaking which cast a shadow over organisers' promises that London 2012 will be the most ethical games yet.
Employees of Elasteks, a clothing firm which...
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A message from Playfair 2012, campaigning for a sweat free Olympics.
In pictures: Made in Cambodia
The images below are taken from a series of images shot in Phnom Penh in Cambodia in September 2011. These document the lives of a group of women garment workers who are employed in the Shen Zhou garment factory, a supplier for Adidas's 2012 Olympics range.
Prem Sreyroth (right), a 24-year-old worker has been working at the Shen Zhou factory since 2005. Every six months she receives a new short-term contract. “Before I could earn around £95-£130 pounds, but now I earn less”...
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A message from Oxfam.
"Music is everything to me. When I'm in trouble I take my guitar and sing. I can forget all of my worries when I’m playing. I have had to run from my village three times because of the war. I leave everything behind except my guitar: I couldn’t leave it behind. Even if it's dangerous I always go home and take my guitar before I run."
Alfredo lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - one of the toughest places on earth to call home. Since 1998, five million people have died as a result of conflict here – and war continues to devastate the east of this...
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