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Workers: Sweating For The Olympics

Issue date

12 May 2010

Workers: Sweating For The Olympics

A TUC, Unison, PCS And ITGLWF Event

Speakers:

Lilis Mahmudah NEC member, Serikat Pekerja Nasional (Textile and Garment Trade Union), Indonesia

Doug Miller Professor in Ethical Fashion, University of Northumbria

Sharon Sukhram, Playfair 2012 Campaign Coordinator, TUC

Followed by Q&As

Date: 10 June 2010 Time: 17.30 - 19.00

Venue: TUC, 5th Floor, Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QE

The Olympics is a multi-million dollar industry, yet most workers producing sportswear and Olympic souvenirs for sale on our high streets continue to be paid poverty wages and work in degrading conditions. Playfair found 12-year-old child workers, adults earning 14p an hour, and employees made to work up to 15 hours a day, seven days a week, producing Olympic merchandise.

But it shouldn't be this way. It's time for the organisers of the London Games, the sportswear industry and the International Olympic Committee to take responsibility for the working conditions in the global supply chains producing these goods.

As workers, trade unionists, students and consumers, we are linked to the millions of workers employed in these supply chains. Acting together, we have the power to bring about change and demand that London 2012 is the first ethical Olympics - providing Decent Work and dignity for all.

Find out more about the issues facing workers employed in supply chains producing sportswear and Olympic merchandise. Discover how you can get involved in the Playfair 2012 campaign and make a real difference to the lives of millions of mainly female workers, who help to make the Olympics possible.

Please RSVP with full name to Melanie Lowden, mlowden@tuc.org.uk. Free admission

Playfair 2012 is supported by:

Anti-Slavery International; ATL, ASLEF, BECTU, Community, CWU, EIS, GMB, ITGLWF, NASUWT, NUJ, NUS, NUT, PCS, People and Planet, Prospect, PFA, STUC, UCATT, UNISON, Unite and War on Want.

BE INSPIRED TO DEMAND THAT LONDON 2012 DELIVERS DECENT WORK FOR ALL www.playfair2012.org

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