Playfair 2012 National Speaker Tour
11 June 2010
The Olympics is a multi-million dollar industry, yet most workers producing sportswear and Olympic souvenirs for sale on our high streets continue to be paid poverty wages and work in degrading conditions. Playfair found 12-year-old child workers, adults earning 14p an hour, and employees made to work up to 15 hours a day, seven days a week, producing Olympic merchandise.
But it shouldn’t be this way. The Playfair 2012 campaign believes that it’s time for the organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games, the sportswear industry and the International Olympic Committee to take responsibility for the working conditions in the global supply chains producing these goods. As workers, trade unionists, students and consumers, we are linked to the millions of workers employed in these supply chains. Acting together, we have the power to bring about change and demand that London 2012 is the first ethical Olympics – providing Decent Work and dignity for all.
Find out more about the issues facing workers employed in supply chains producing sportswear and Olympic merchandise. Discover how you can get involved in the Playfair 2012 campaign and make a real difference to the lives of millions of mainly female workers, who help to make the Olympics possible.
Keynote speaker:
Lilis Mahmudah, Textile and Garment Trade Union, Indonesia
Date: 11 June 2010 Time: 12.30-14.00
Venue: STUC, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG
Free admission/Light lunch provided
To come along to this event contact Sandra Walker at SWalker@stuc.org.uk
Or for more information see: http://www.stuc.org.uk/events/750/playfair-2012-11-june-2010
