Transcript Doug Miller`s Presentation Slides

Union Organising
around major
sports events
www.playfair2008.org
Aims for the session
• Review the industry and the problem
• The campaign team
• The targets
• The objectives
• Progress so far
Sourcing Countries
80% manufactured
in Asia for the US,
EU and Japanese
markets
The Problem
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Outsourced manufacture
Low value added
Pressure on Price
Shortening lead times
Lean manufacturing
Consolidation following expiry of the Agreement
on Textiles and Clothing 2004
• Trade unions hitherto seen as an impediment to
this model.
Labour Value in Nike T Shirts
Plant A
Plant B
Number of workers in one
line or cell
6 (cell)
10 (line)
Number of T shirts per day
per line/cell
900
800
Daily wage per worker
US$ 17.2
US$ 13.6
T Shirts per worker
150
80
US$ 0.11 cents
US$ 0.18
Table 1.
Unit Labour Cost
From : Locke 7 Romis 2006 p.32
Ex factory
Wage
Retail cut
Profit for the brand
Campaign Team 2008
Steering Committee Strategy
Lobby Group
Popular
Campaigning
Group
Companies
&
IOC/NOCs
Media &
Publicity,
Street
campaigning
Targets
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Olympics family
Sourcing Companies (brands)
Supplier firms
Institutional investors
Public and all workers
All Governments
(Chinese Government)
Targets
Sourcing
Companies
International Olympics
Committee
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National Olympics
Committees
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Games Organising
Committees
Asian TNCs
What do we want to achieve
• Language in Olympic Charter
• New contractual provisions in Licensing
• IOC needs to invest in compliance
What do we want to achieve with
brands and Suppliers on FOA
• Disclose locations
• Freedom of Association stakeholder
meetings
• Non Interference Guarantee
• Access Agreements
• Apply principles of ILO Convention 135
• Independent structures in China
‘Non-Interference Guarantee’
• ‘In the event of a trade union organising
committee being formed in my factory I
hereby undertake in line with the (name of
buyer) code of conduct provision on
freedom of association not to victimise any
workers.
• Signed ……………..Factory Manager