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Play Fair 2008 closed with activities in several cities and sends a message to the textile industry brands

During the past two weeks, the organizations of the Platform Play Fair 2008 has been active in solidarity with the workers of the textile industry international sports. The 2008 season was closed successfully with various sporting events (Olympics, pentathlon, bicycles) in several cities: Pamplona Pamplona, \u200b\u200bVigo, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, Ourense, Bilbao, Zaragoza and Barcelona.

Pentathlon Play Fair at the Pavilion of La Casilla Bilbao on July 28

Net Bike Ride in Barcelona on June 28

Olympics Clean in the Vuelta del Castillo in Pamplona on June 14

bike clean on the streets of Zaragoza on June 27

These activities are aimed at sending a message of concern not only the International Olympic Committee but also the textile industry brands sporting the lack of progress to improve the lives of workers and workers who make their products.

Next find the manifesto read on the Net Bike Ride held in Barcelona on June 28th pass with the help of Friends of the Bike .

been 15 years since the first international mobilization for the rights of women workers and workers in the textile industry sports and 4 years from the Play Fair at the Olympics in Athens.

Major brands in this industry have advertised with great self-satisfaction the adoption of codes of conduct and social responsibility measures, which they say guarantee that in the production of clothes and shoes there is no exploitation work.

However, the work of NGOs and trade unions in North and South show a very different reality:

• Research by Play Fair at the end of 2007 shows how, Although codes of conduct, workers and workers who make the products Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Asics and New Balance, among others, are the consequences of the enormous pressure to meet deadlines getting shorter priced ever lower, in the form of working hard with no overtime pay is recorded or
• factories working for the big sportswear companies always find the mechanisms for paying wages below the minimum established by the laws of the countries where production occurs by setting impossible goals. And this despite the fact that working hours are higher at 12 hours.

• soccer balls produced in the province of Jalandhar (India) are mostly sewn by people working at home charging between 25 and 65 cents euro per ball (the same ball that comes to sell at 120 euros).

• The workers who stitch balls in Pakistan are between 30 and 45 cents per ball.

• Workers and Cambodja workers receive an average wage of 65 euros per month.

• in Bangladesh do not get to pay the minimum wage of 20 euros a month.

These realities are possible:
- For the great insecurity of labor markets due to pressure from multinational corporations

- The union of business strategy that prevents workers to organize to defend their interests,

- The instability of trade relations imposed by large international firms.

Today in Hong Kong a meeting between representatives of the Play Fair 2008 campaign and representatives of the firms major sportswear. At this meeting, the Play Fair 2008 campaign and all entities and organizations give support requiring businesses:

1 - To take concrete steps to develop an environment that is conducive to freedom of association and col Ectiva,

2 - To ensure the elimination of poor to the supply chain,

3 - to be over with the policy of closures and relocation of factories,

4 - To take measures effective in improving the incomes of workers and employees to achieve a living wage.
fair play campaign for the coming 2012 Olympic Games in London.