PlayFair 2008 is a global alliance of trade unions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and labour groups, working together to draw attention to working conditions in the world sportswear sector as we approach the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.
One of the biggest ever global mobilisations against inhuman working conditions was launched in advance of the Athens Olympics in 2004. Known as the “Play Fair at the Olympics Campaign”, it consisted of an alliance of Oxfam units3, Global Unions (including the ITUC (then the ICFTU)4 and the ITGLWF), the Clean Clothes Campaign and their constituent organisations worldwide.
It aimed to pressure sportswear and athletic footwear companies, the International Olympics Committee (IOC), its organising committees (OCOGs) and the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), as well as national governments, into taking identifiable and concrete measures to eliminate the exploitation and abuse of the mostly women workers in the global sporting goods industry.
This campaign work will continue in the run up to the Beijing Olympics and beyond. Some members of the original Play Fair Alliance the ITUC, Global Unions and members of the Clean Clothes Campaign have given the follow up campaign the title PlayFair 2008.
PlayFair 2008 recognizes that this present system of exploitation and abuse in the sportswear and athletic footwear industries can only really be brought to an end when governments assume their responsibilities both nationally and internationally to protect workers rights and to hold business accountable for labour practices, and when workers are able to organize in order to advance their own interests.
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