International demonstration of solidarity in support of the North Sails workers in Sri Lanka.

The Netherlands
On the 14th of December 2004 activists from the Clean Clothes Campaign demonstrated in front of Kubus Sport in the town of Naarden. This importer imports North Sails products - a popular brand name in the sport of windsurfing. Kubus Sport declined to issue any statement about this labor dispute, following the example of other North Sails business partners in Europe who refuse to take responsibility for resolving this conflict that started in 2002.

Switzerland
On the same day , Swiss Clean Clothes Activists embarked on a quest to find out more about North Sails and its business partner, the new owner of the factory, Global Sports Technologies GST Holding AG. The Swiss CCC had spoken earlier with Mr. S, the owner of GST Holding.

Beginning in the small town of Zug in Switzerland, the trail led them to a post office box in the Industriestrasse where mail for GST Holding was forwarded to a secret address.

Continuing their search to find the link between GST Holding and Boards & More, the activists traveled from Zug to Zurich where they discovered at the local Chamber of Commerce that Mr. S was part of the management team of Boards & More, the license holders of the North Sails brand and the owner of Austrian Boards & More - the former owners of the North Sails factory in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka
In conjunction with the demonstrations in the Netherlands, workers at the North Sails factory distributed posters with the words "Let us join hands in international solidarity: pressure Global Sports Lanka (formerly North Sails Lanka) to take back the dismissed workers. About 10,000 pamphlets were also distributed, with background information about the campaign.