Play Fair -Say No to Olympic Sweatshops!
January 10, 2010
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In the lead up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Play Fair campaign is urging sportswear companies to adhere to internationally recognized requirements for decent work.
The Play Fair campaign is a coalition of labour rights groups that seek to push sportswear brands that manufacture products for the Olympic Games to abolish sweatshop conditions in their supply chains and to respect labour rights.
Despite more than 15 years of codes of conduct adopted by major sportswear brands, such as adidas, Nike, New Balance, Puma and Asics, workers making their products still face extreme pressure to meet production quotas, excessive, undocumented and unpaid overtime, verbal abuse, threats to health and safety related to the high quotas and exposure to toxic chemicals, and a failure to provide legally required health and other insurance programs.
Find out how these companies are measuring up.Play Fair believes that sportswear and athletic footwear companies, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), National Olympics Committees, as well as national governments must take steps to eliminate this continuing exploitation and abuse of workers in the global sporting goods industry.
Watch the latest video from the Play Fair campaign and take action by sending a letter to sportswear companies now.
Save the Federal Gun Registry! Say NO to Bill C-391
The CAW has joined with hundrds of thousands of Canadians aross this country calling on MPs to vote NO when Bill C-391 returns for third and final reading in Parliament in the coming month. Bill C-391 is a Conservative-lead private members bill intended to dismantle Canada's long gun registry - the existing government program that administers the registration of rifles and shotguns.
It's devastating that the Conservative government is trying to dismantle the national gun registry, with the help of members of the NDP and Liberal parties.
