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Article

1 May 2011

Author:
Two Tomorrows

[PDF] ‘Raising the Bar’ – next steps on the journey towards sustainability in the sports apparel industry

adidas commissioned Two Tomorrows to facilitate a workshop...The event focused on adidas’s supply chain management in the context of major sporting events (including, but not limited to the London Olympics 2012)...Key points [include]...four key issues were highlighted as being of particular importance to the labour groups present: freedom of association, fair wages, precarious work and forced overtime. A key recommendation from this was for adidas to issue a requirement for suppliers to provide a ‘right to unionise guarantee’ to workers, in order to be more pro-actively promoting freedom of association...[T]he importance of sharing best practice with other clothing retailers, such as M&S and Next was highlighted...A ‘missed opportunity’ was identified for London 2012, in that adidas is not engaging with non apparel brands such as BMW and Cisco...[also refers to Asda (part of Wal-mart)]