TUC Fact Files are designed to:
Behind the Beijing Olympics are workers producing sportswear and equipment,
usually rewarded with poverty wages, bullying, unsafe working conditions and
excessive overtime in factories, sweatshops and homes, from Bulgaria to China.
This TUC Fact File contains a series of fact sheets and activities to help
trade union tutors and activists inform others about the unfair labour practices
in the global sporting goods industry and how to tackle them in the lead-up
to London 2012..
Download Fair Play Fact File
This Fact File covers why people move around the world and under what conditions,
what their legal rights and protections are, and the links between migration,
workers’ rights and development. There are teaching materials and tips
on dispelling myths about migrant workers and on dealing with racism and xenophobia.
This complements other TUC booklets such as Tackling
Racism, Migrant
Workers: a TUC Guide, and Busting
the Myths: Getting the facts right about migrant workers
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Refugees and migrant workers Fact File
The Fact File explains the concepts, history and dilemmas of development
and poverty, and how they relate to trade, aid and debt. Importantly it covers
efforts to tackle these issues, including the creation of the Millennium Development
Goals (the global targets for poverty reduction), and the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign
(of which the TUC forms part), explaining why trade unionists can and should
be central to efforts for socially just development.
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International development and the trade union role Fact File
This Fact File covers the concepts, politics and importance of international
trade. Exploring how trade can either drive or undermine a country’s
development, it covers how the global trading system works (including the
roles of the World Trade Organisation, multinational companies and foreign
direct investment), how it favours developed countries and what needs to
change. These issues are explored through examining global supply chains,
export processing zones, corruption, pensions, fair trade and trade justice
as well as the trade union role in pursuing a just globalisation.
Download Trade and trade
unions Fact File
The world's football associations will make over £200m from sponsorship
and licensing arrangements in 2006. While their sponsors are expecting hundreds
of millions of pounds in additional revenue from World Cup goods. Meanwhile,
the people stitching the footballs, sewing the shirts and gluing the boots
that will earn this money are working late into the night, six or seven days
a week for poverty wages. Those that attempt to form trade unions to try to
improve their working conditions are persecuted and often lose their jobs.
This report from the TUC and Labour Behind the Label provides excellent material
to complement the Play
Fair at the Olympics Fact File.
Download Sweet FA Report
The International Labour Organisation estimates that after 200 years of the
formal abolition of slavery, there are still 12 million women, children and
men who are in various forms of slave and forced labour. A Fact File designed
to enlighten, stimulate and inform debate about the slave trade and forced
labour. It gives an excellent account of the history of slavery and links
it to the causes and consequences of slavery and forced labour in today’s
world.
Download Slavery
and forced labour Fact File
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