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Olympics: IOC Inaction on Labour Rights Shameful
Five years have passed since we first called on the IOC to stand up for the workers who make Olympics products, but it is still business as usual for them. Once again, money is pouring in to the coffers of the Olympics movement, but the workers who create the wealth are still being ripped off,' said Guy Ryder, general secretary of the ITUC, a Play Fair partner organization.
A clear 'road map' of concrete steps that the IOC needs to take to live up to its responsibility to prevent labour rights violations in Olympic supply chains has widespread support, yet the IOC has refused to take action.
According to Play Fair 2008 activists, the IOC has refused to commit staff or resources to constructively follow up on the many outstanding issues - including poverty wages, child labour and excessive overtime - shown to exist in Olympic supply chains.
Play Fair's research into factories in China producing Olympics merchandise revealed numerous violations of international labour standards and Chinese law. Excessive overtime, poverty wages and poor working conditions remain common in the Olympic products and sportswear factories. The IOC never followed up properly on the 2007 report and has not taken any action to make sure that Olympic-branded products would not be made with sweatshop labour.
For more information, see http://www.playfair2008.org/