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Article

11 Jan 2010

Author:
Play Fair Alliance

Clearing the hurdles

Just before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Play Fair and The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)...identified four key hurdles facing workers in the sportswear industry and recommended four ways to overcome them: 1. Develop a positive climate for freedom of association and collective bargaining; 2. Eliminate the use of precarious employment in sportswear supply chains; 3. Lessen both the frequency and negative impacts of factory closures; and 4. Take steps to improve worker incomes, with the goal of reaching a living wage for all workers. In these pages 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.