http://www.ituc-csi.org/london-olympics-committee-to-get.html With the organisers
of the London 2012 Olympics introducing new measures to protect workers
producing merchandise for the Olympic Games this year, the ITUC and its Play
Fair alliance partners are calling on the International Olympic Committee to
introduce “comprehensive and effective measures” to put an end to violations of
workers’ rights in Olympics supply chains. The move comes with the publication
of a new dossier, “Toying with Workers’ Rights”, which uncovers the use of child
labour, excessive working hours, poverty wages, dangerous working conditions and
the absence of independent unions in factories making merchandise for the London
Olympics. The London Olympics organising committee LOCOG has agreed to
publish the names and locations of most of the factories producing London 2012
licensed products in China and the UK, make information available to the workers
on their rights, set up a Chinese-language complaints hotline, provide training
to workers on their rights, and work with partners in the Play Fair alliance to
help stop similar exploitation for future Olympics. The new dossier was prepared by independent researchers in
China working undercover in the production factories. It was commissioned by
the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain and Labour Behind the Label as Play
Fair 2012 - the UK partners of the international Play Fair Alliance.
To read the Play Fair 2012 press release: http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-20660-f0.cfm
To read the report “Toying with Workers’ Rights”: http://www.ituc-csi.org/toying-with-workers-rights.html?lang=en To read the letter to IOC President Jacques Rogge: http://www.ituc-csi.org/letter-to-jacques-rogge.html
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