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Send an e-mail today to adidas, Asics, Lotto, Mizuno, New Balance, Nike, Pentland, and Puma asking them to take action now to

develop a positive climate for freedom of association and collective bargaining;
Eliminate the use of precarious employment in sportswear supply chains;
Lessen both the frequency and negative impacts of factory closures; and
Take steps to improve worker incomes, with the goal of reaching a living wage for all workers.

Tell them you’ve seen their responses on this site and you find them lacking. Tell them it’s time to up their game and start clearing the hurdles for workers’ rights.

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Hello;

I’ve reviewed the way your company responded to Play Fair 2008’s proposals on ways to clear the four major hurdles impeding progress on worker rights in your factories.

From what I’ve read at www.clearingthehurdles.org, very few of the targets set by Play Fair will be met unless you take action now to: 
•	develop a positive climate for freedom of association and collective bargaining;
•	Eliminate the use of precarious employment in sportswear supply chains;
•	Lessen both the frequency and negative impacts of factory closures; and
•	Take steps to improve worker incomes, with the goal of reaching a living wage for all workers.
 
I believe the proposals and targets put forward by Play Fair are reasonable and necessary. Despite more than 15 years of codes of conduct adopted by major sportswear brands like your own, workers making sportswear products still face extreme pressure to meet production quotas, excessive, undocumented and unpaid overtime, verbal abuse, threats to health and safety related to the high quotas and exposure to toxic chemicals, and a failure to provide legally required health and other insurance programs. Many are facing precarious working arrangements, overwhelming obstacles to their right to unionize, and poverty wages.

It’s about time we set some deadlines for progress to be made on these critical issues. It’s time to undertake a set of actions with specific targets to ensure that when the next Olympic Games come around in 2012, workers can expect tangible improvements in their wages and working conditions rather than two more years of talk about vague commitments. It’s time to up your game and start clearing the hurdles for workers’ rights.

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