The Playfair 08 campaign has launched its own electronic torch relay: Catch the Flame.
The relay highlights the need for the Olympics movement to stamp out abuses of labour standards in workplaces making Olympics goods. Such abuses include the total lack of concern for the health, safety and welfare of employees.By Catching the Flame supporters can join others in calling on the International Olympics Committee to take action.
The Catch the Flame relay, launched on 19th March in Amsterdam, has now reached the UK.
Sign up and help to carry it all the way to Beijing.
Catch the Flame is the first in a series of actions organised by the Play Fair 2008 coalition in the run up to the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is one of the main organisations involved in the international Playfair coalition and the TUC is part of the campaign at a UK level.
Play Fair 2008 has been in contact with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)on several occasions since 2003, most recently since Play Fair investigators uncovered a series of gross violations of workers' rights in four Chinese factories making products under license to the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
You can
read or download the report at www.playfair2008.org
The IOC have taken no real action so far towards addressing the very real problems of labour rights abuses in Olympics supply chains.
With the 2008 Olympics being held in China, international attention has focused on a range of human rights issues in China and related concerns such as health and safety and press freedom. While Play Fair's work has documented serious violations in Olympics production inside China, the problem is not limited to China, and previous Play Fair studies have documented workers' rights violations in sports merchandise production in a range of other countries.
You can show your concern for the health, safety and welfare of workers in the Olympics merchandise and supply chains by visiting the 'Catch the Flame' website.
Read the message to the IOC here
Sign up and show your support for the Play Fair campaign's objectives for fair labour standards in Olympics production:
Catch the Flame now!
Source: TUC
