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| See how major sportswear brands rate on workers' rights |
| Monday, 01 March 2010 14:22 |
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We’ve challenged sportswear brands to take a series of actions to overcome four major hurdles that block progress on worker rights in the sportswear industry. At this website you can find out how they have responded. In response to protests about working conditions in their supply factories, some sportswear brands have developed labour rights monitoring and compliance programs and taken action on a number of issues and cases. Despite these efforts, substantial violations of worker rights and poverty wages are still the norm for workers in the sportswear industry. Just before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Play Fair and The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) published a report called Clearing the Hurdles: Steps to improving working conditions in the global sportswear industry. In this website - http://www.clearingthehurdles.org/ - the Play Fair Campaign and MSN present responses from Nike, adidas, Pentland, Puma, Lotto, New Balance, Asics and Mizuno on their willingness to meet 36 specific targets to overcome the four hurdles facing workers in the sportswear industry. |
