III Exemple of actions.
1) Play fair at the Olympics.
The majority of sports
wear industries seeks for productivity, with a production cheaper and faster
so employers must work harder and longer. What's more their wages are very
low and they can't join trade unions.
For the Olympics games, Global unions, the clean clothes campaign and Oxfam
will make pressure on sport brands in order to improve the conditions of work
be respect. They want to persuade the committee to "play fair" because
the Olympics games are representative of the world. During two months some
people will sign cards or petitions for sportswear labour. In London, for
this campaign on four march there were athletes with the campaign message
painted on their bodies.
2) German action at Tom Tailor store in Hamburg
Clean Campaign Company activists continue to demand that Tom Tailor's Indonesian supplier PT Kahatex reinstate workers illegally fired in May.
3) Solidarity actions for the North Sails workers in Sri Lanka.
In this factory, 207 workers
were suspended because they went on strike because of a cancellation of a
quality bonus. Workers need the quality bonus to survive on the extremely
low wages they are paid.
In Australia, the Fair Wear Campaign organised a beach action. A lot of people
supported the action and signed the banner.
In Australia, ten thousand leaflets were distributed among the workers and
posters with slogans demanding the restoration of the North Sails Lanka workers.
On Sunday 21 September 2003, the Workers Union organised a public seminar
where the North Sails dispute was discussed. A lot of persons attended this
meeting and many of them signed cards of protest.
The clean clothes campaign demands that the workers earn normal wages and
that they can form unions to defend their own rights.