Thank you for providing adidas with an opportunity to respond to the Clean Clothes Campaign’s (CCC’s) recent press release... 

We see no justifiable grounds for such a complaint. Nevertheless, we are happy to share with the NCP our efforts and actions to date to seek remedies and to assist the parties resolve their longstanding dispute...

We had no orders with PDB at the time the workers went on strike in July 2012, or at the time when they lost their employment, or at any time thereafter, up until the factory closed in January, 2014... Despite this fact, we stepped forward, based on our long-standing relationship with the union’s parent federation, to encourage an early resolution of the dispute...

- [W]e reached out to PDB and encouraged them to extend the deadline for workers to return to work...

- We facilitated the appointment of an independent third party.. and ...continue to urge both parties to negotiate and reach a mutual agreement...

The ILO Committee has [...] delivered its conclusions and a remedy: it has called on the Indonesian government to hold a formal inquiry to reach a decision on the legality of the strike, based on which the appropriate level of compensation due to the workers can then be determined... [W]e have met with the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower [...] and have also written to them, formally, to request that they complete an independent review and make a legal determination over the payment of severance. It is our belief, that only a final and legally binding decision will resolve these long outstanding claims.