The Guide for activists

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The
Guide for activists
My Style – My responsibility
The Clean Clothes-Guide for activists
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Introduction
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Working conditions in the global garment industry
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Clean Clothes Campaign - For better working
conditions in the global garment industry
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Code of Conduct
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Shopping Guide
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Urgent Appeals (UA)
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Actions
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10 steps to a successful Clean Clothes Action
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Contact
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Imprint
Clean Clothes Campaign
Südwind Agentur
Laudongasse 40
1080 Vienna
Thomas Szilagyi
Graphics:
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Cover photos: Klaus Bock;
Photos: Clean Clothes Campaign (7), CCAWDU (1), INKOTA (3), Oxfam (1), Michael Klein (1)
Collection-Cover: Göttin des Glücks
Printing: Resch Druck, 1150 Vienna
Vienna 2007
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2.1
Working conditions in the global garment industry
The garment industry - a global industry
International trade in textiles and garments goes back hundreds of years. The garment industry is now highly globalised and served by complex supply chains linking
countries, workers and consumers all over the world.
The world‘s consumers spend around US$1 trillion a year buying clothes, with
around one third of sales in the European Union, one third in North America and one
quarter in Asia.
The market in garments is dominated by an ever smaller number of big companies.
These companies deal mainly with retailing, the lucrative side of the garment industry, while manufacture is sub-contracted across the world.
The global production shift has meant that garments are frequently made up on the
other side of the world to where the final product is sold, in another language and
culture. Transactions often occur through a complex network of agents, sub-contractors and suppliers. So fragmented is this side of the industry that even the companies which commission garment production do not always know exactly where
and under what conditions their products are made.
2.2 Gendered problems
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Introduction
We can change the world – everyday!
With this activists’ guide we want to deliver background information on the work
and mechanisms of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), but we also want to give
you guidance on how to get involved with the Clean Clothes Campaign. Because
to change the world and realize fair working conditions worldwide – we need your
help and your action!
The focus of this guide are your possibilities for action for better working conditions
in the globalised garment and sportswear industry. These possibilities are manifold:
it goes from completing an Urgent Appeal by yourself or collecting signatures from
your friends up to organising a huge charity party in your town or village for the
Clean Clothes Campaign.
Actions are the tool through which you make the Clean Clothes Campaign work!
And it doesn’t have to be big; it is much more important that you do something
and thereby contribute with hundreds of others to fair working conditions in the
garment and sportswear industry.
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The majority of the garment workforce is female. In many cases they may be young
girls from rural villages who make the journey to the city to earn money for their
families. They may also be mothers with dependent children.
The specific preference for women workers – and especially young women – is
rooted in the fact that the most vulnerable are the easiest to exploit. Socially stigmatised and often deprived of the schooling their male colleagues have received,
they are afraid to speak out about the difficulties they face inside and outside the
workplace. Maternity leave, while granted in theory, is rare in practice. Long hours
mean they finish work late at night, when they may face a dangerous walk home.
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Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
Most of the workers are not aware of their rights, and management will not allow
them to form a union in the factory. The climate of fear means that no one in these
factories dares to form a trade union. “If anybody tries to form a union he will be
dismissed from his job. We never tried to organise a union due to fear of losing our
jobs, Workers are afraid of losing their jobs if the employer knows that they are involved in trade union activities“, said Abdul, worker in a Bangladeshi factory, which is
producing garment for European retailers.
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have liked to be an Arabic teacher, and would love to marry and have children of her
own. But her obligations to her family, coupled with her low wage, mean that these
aspirations will remain unfulfilled.
Maria is a homeworker in Bulgaria. She earns 60 Euro a month, yet to support her
family of four, homeworking organisations say she would need to earn 200 Euro.
Maria is paid piece rate – a fixed amount per garment produced, rather than per hour.
If she wants to earn even the minimum wage, she has to work sixteen hours a day;
to earn more, the whole family, including her children, has to help with the work. On
top of this, Maria also has to cope with irregular payments and with knowing that
she is being paid less than other homeworkers doing the same work in the nearby
town. Maria sums up her situation like this: “nothing is secure. Life is much harder
than it used to be. Instead of going forwards, we are going backwards”.
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2.4
Living wage
What means the term “living wage”? Wages and benefits paid for a standard working week shall meet at least legal or industry minimum standards and always be
sufficient to meet basic needs of workers and their families and to provide some
discretionary income.
In a Chinese factory producing bags with the Olympic logo, researchers for the Playfair 08 campaign found that workers were earning only a third of the legal minimum,
despite working over 350 hours per month. “Our wages are calculated by using the
piece rate method,” explained one worker, “so we all have to work very hard to earn
around 1,000 yuan a month. Many workers stay behind an extra 10 minutes just to
do a few more pieces. There is no overtime pay rate. The rate per piece is the same
as during normal working hours. The company said we’d get an extra 0.7 yuan per
hour during the overtime sessions, but in reality, the extra money goes to pay for our
meals [which are provided during overtime hours].”
Nadia works in a factory supplying a well-known fashion brand in Morocco. She
earns the minimum wage of 1 Euro per hour, and distributes her 45 Euro weekly
earnings as follows: “First, I give some to my parents, who don’t work. Next come
my sisters [two of whom are studying]. Then I keep whatever is left for myself.” At
35, Nadia still shares a 3-room house with nine members of her family. She would
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Hours of work are excessive
A typical work day at the Chinese factory Lekit is 12 hours, of which 4 hours is a
mandatory overtime period. Staff works this overtime Mondays to Saturdays and
sometimes on Sundays. In fact, most workers at Lekit only get Sunday nights off, and
the production workers are rarely given any days off, even if they requested them. In
January 2007 overtime work at Lekit jumped to 160 hours that month.
This is 4.5 times the maximum allowable overtime of 36 hours a month. Thus, on
top of the regular 176 hours (8 hours a day x 22 week days a month), the workers
were forced to work another 160 hours, or about 80 hours a week. „I sit behind the
machine all day every day (from 7:30am until 11pm). My bum gets numb and my
right leg hurts. I can’t walk now without my leg hurting“, told a worker of the factory
Lekit.
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Working conditions are not decent
In February and March 2006, a spate of garment factory collapses and fires left almost
100 workers dead and many more injured. Clothing buyers had audited many of
these factories. Interviewed workers state that emergency exits in their workplaces
are still often kept locked.
The Sunday Times reported that migrant workers in Mauritius were put in dormitories. 40-50 garment workers huddled together in such a room. „For the 985 employees (in the factory) there were only 10 toilets and at least three of them did not work
at any time. More often there was no water in the toilets. The food was so bad we
could not consume it“, explained one worker.
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-- organizations or individuals do not become official members or pay dues -but all those involved in the Clean Clothes Campaign network are committed to
actively working in cooperation with other coalition members to improve conditions
in the garment and sportswear industries. This means seeking to bring conditions
up to the labor standards of the International Labor Organization (ILO), and to also
lessen the environmental impact of garment production. Because a high percentage
of workers in the garment industry are women, the Clean Clothes Campaign strives to
incorporate a gender analysis into its strategizing and approach to campaigning. The
Clean Clothes Campaign also recognizes that the current structure of the international garment industry is largely carried out in the informal sector and that significant
use is made of migrant labor. These factors bring special challenges that the Clean
Clothes Campaign seeks to address.
3.1
Main targets
The Clean Clothes Campaign aims to improve working conditions and to empower
workers in the global garment industry, in order to end the oppression, exploitation
and abuse of workers in this industry, most of whom are women.
The Clean Clothes Campaign has therefore four broad categories of activity that ultimately aim to move us closer to our main goals.
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Clean Clothes Campaign - For better working
conditions in the global garment industry
A 1989 demonstration in front of a Dutch clothing store, protesting bad working
conditions in the Philippines where the clothes were actually produced, grew into
an ongoing campaign in the Netherlands, called the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC).
The campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and
sportswear industries, is now active in 13 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Each of the European Clean Clothes Campaigns is a coalition of NGOs and trade
unions. They work autonomously at the national level, and come together to work
jointly at the European level. This European campaign network is backed up by a
broader, international network that includes trade unions, NGOs, and individuals
in countries where garments are produced. This means Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe,
and Central America. The Clean Clothes Campaign also cooperates with similar campaigns in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Outside of Europe the Clean Clothes Campaign operates more as an informal network
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Putting pressure on companies to take responsibility to ensure that
their garments are produced in decent working conditions.
Supporting workers, trade unions and NGOs in producer countries.
Raising awareness among consumers by providing accurate information about working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industry, in order to mobilise citizens to use their power as
consumers.
Exploring legal possibilities for improving working conditions, and
lobbying for legislation to promote good working conditions and
for laws that would compel governments and companies to become
ethical consumers.
Putting pressure on companies to take responsibility to ensure that their products
are made in decent working conditions:
We choose major retailers and the major brands as the focus of our campaigns
because they are strategic players in the garment and sportswear industry. They‘re
big and they set the standards for that industry. We focus on sportswear companies
because the consumer link is even stronger -- for example, they sponsor events. The
Clean Clothes Campaign demands from retailers and brands that they adopt codes
of labour practices based on ILO standards. The Clean Clothes Campaign also presMy style – my responsibility!
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sures companies to have a code that requires full implementation of the standards
listed, regular monitoring of code compliance and verification of claims about code
compliance. The Clean Clothes Campaign has developed a model code as a guideline and is currently involved in several projects to get a better understanding of
what would actually constitute a good monitoring and verification system. We also
pressure companies to adopt ethical buying practices - for example in relation to pricing and scheduling - otherwise their suppliers will not be able to enforce requests
to improve workplace conditions. Besides making these demands for structural
improvements, the Clean Clothes Campaign, through its Urgent Appeals system,
also pressures companies to take action on individual instances of labour rights
violations.
Supporting workers, trade unions and NGOs in producer countries:
The Clean Clothes Campaign supports workers for example via actions based on
Urgent Appeals. With this system we receive, verify, disseminate, and follow up on
specific requests for assistance in cases of labour rights violations. The demands that
we publicize and pursue are those made by the workers themselves -- they take the
risks (in terms of safety and loss of jobs), therefore the Clean Clothes Campaign believes that they should set the strategy and make the decisions about if and how their
case is presented to the brand name companies involved, the public, and the media.
We also organise research, exchange programs and international seminars that help
create spaces where international strategies to improve working conditions can be
debated and developed. Both the solidarity work and the Clean Clothes Campaign’s
work with consumers are supported by our function as a clearinghouse for relevant
information.
Raising awareness among consumers by providing accurate information about
working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industry, in order to
mobilise citizens to use their power as consumers:
Multinational corporations (MNCs) spend millions of dollars each year on advertising
and marketing campaigns to get consumers to buy the products they are selling.
Brand name companies compete intensely for consumer loyalty, and therefore consumers can influence how these companies operate. The Clean Clothes Campaign is
a public campaign and harnesses the power of the people to push for positive social
change. We gather information and present it to consumers in a variety of ways
(educational programmes, demonstrations, ads, debates, books, rallies, internet) so
that they know the truth about how clothes are produced (low wages, long hours,
repression of trade union rights, sexual discrimination, etc.). Armed with this information we encourage citizens to pursue a variety of ways to take action to improve
working conditions in the industry where the clothes they wear are made.
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Exploring legal possibilities for improving working conditions, and lobbying for
legislation to promote good working conditions and for laws that would compel
governments and companies to become ethical consumers:
Most recently the campaign is exploring legal possibilities for improving working
conditions (that includes for example investigating the possibilities for lawsuits
against companies in their home countries for violations of labour rights in other
countries) and lobbying for legislation that would promote good working conditions. The Clean Clothes Campaign believes that government has an important role
in ensuring that good labour standards are enforced (in many countries where garments are produced there is good legislation, but enforcement is lax).
The campaign is actively lobbying for laws that would compel governments to
become ethical consumers. Governments -- at the local and national levels -- spend
millions on uniforms, for example, and the Clean Clothes Campaign believes that
these should all be produced in workplaces that respect workers‘ rights.
4 Code of Conduct
4.1
What is a code of conduct?
A code of conduct, in the context of Clean Clothes Campaign work, refers to a list of
labour standards. Those who sign on to codes pledge to adhere to these standards
in their workplaces. Some companies have drafted their own codes, while the Clean
Clothes Campaign and various trade unions and NGOs have drafted model codes
which they believe are more comprehensive.
The Code of Conduct:
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Employment is freely chosen.
There is no discrimination in employment.
Child labour is not used.
Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are
respected.
Living wages are paid.
Hours of work are not excessive.
Working conditions are decent.
The employment relationship is established.
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a member, these include the Ethical Trade Initiative in the UK, the Fair Wear Foundation in the Netherlands and the Fair Labor Association in the US. Being a member
does not mean that the clothes the company sells are clean. What it means is that
companies have committed to a certain programme of work, and workers and their
organisations can file a complaint with the MSI if they believe the member company
has violated the code.
5.1
Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
A Multi-Stakeholder Initiative brings together various stakeholders to address specific issues, in this context these initiatives are taking up the issues of monitoring and
verifying compliance with a code of conduct. The Clean Clothes Campaign acts as an
actor in multi-stakeholder initiatives. Once the experience gained in pilot projects
are evaluated, the results demonstrated that the Clean Clothes-Model Code could be
made more concrete through these Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives. The Clean Clothes
Campaign increasingly considers harmonisation of both code content and multi-stakeholder initiatives as an important issue. The apparel and sport shoe sector is the
source of the greatest share of code of conducts issues since the early 1990s.
4.2
Code of Conduct of the Clean Clothes Campaign
The body of the code is based on the core ILO conventions including prohibitions
against child labour, forced or bonded labour, discrimination, freedom of association
and the right to collective bargaining. This is followed by the basic labour conditions
- wages, hours and working conditions (including health and safety) and their formulation in the code, also derived from ILO standards.
5 Shopping Guide
Unfortunately we don‘t have a list of „clean“ retailers or manufacturers - things are
not really at the point yet where we would feel comfortable endorsing or recommending any companies (since they all have a long way to go).
There are some companies that have made some progress on the policy level, for
example by agreeing to have a code of conduct that refers to ILO standards. Of
course companies also have to make sure they implement the labour standards outlined in the codes, and this is where it gets difficult. Clean Clothes Campaign believes
its important that trade unions and NGOs, and ultimately the workers themselves,
have a voice in determining how codes are implemented. In that sense we believe
participation of companies in so-called Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSI) is a step
forward. There are several in operation right now of which companies can become
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Three prominent international Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives have been
initiated in the sector:
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Ethical Trading Initiative - http://www.ethicaltrade.org/
Fair Labor Association - http://www.fairlabor.org/
Fair Wear Foundation - http://www.fairwear.nl/
The Jo-In Initiative - http://www.jo-in.org
In spring 2003 the Ethical Trading Initiative took the initiative to bring together
six organisations, each working on the implementation and/or enforcement
of labour standards. The organizations eventually committed to a joint project
with the purpose to explore opportunities for collaborative efforts to improve
workplace conditions in the garment industry and generate learning in the
implementation of labour codes of conduct.
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5.2
„Alternative“ or „Ethical“ Clothes
A number of initiatives selling clothes, that are calling themselves „ethical“, „alternative“ or „fairly produced“, have sprung up in the wake of the international anti-sweatshop movement, which aim to meet the needs of a rising number of consumers,
individual and institutional, now demanding „clean clothes“.
Recently, we‘ve seen an increase in small companies originating from a fair trade or
activist background who are trying to provide an ethical alternative for consumers.
For an overview of these alternative or fair trade companies and brands, and the
questions you should ask them, if you plan to buy something via them, see the critical overview of ethical brands on our website:
http://www.cleanclothes.org/companies/04-04-alternative-ethical-clothes-review.
htm
In order to understand these initiatives, it is important to have some background on
their origins. Some have grown out of the European „fair trade movement“, which
traditionally focuses on complying with fair trade criteria (basically that a fair price
is paid to producers and that support be given to develop businesses) rather than
labour standards. Others originate from the US, whose own clothing industry is characterized by bad working conditions, and where initiatives were launched mainly
by activists or as a result of activism in the anti-sweatshop movement. They aim to
show that it is possible to run a viable clothing company in the US, with unionised
factories in which workers enjoy all basic rights. Some grew directly out of workers‘
struggles, like the Solidarity Factory set up by the former Bed & Bath workers in Thailand.
5.3
What else can I do?
Keep asking questions to the store personnel where you buy clothes. Here are just
some of the questions you can ask.
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Where does this garment come from?
Do you know how much they‘ve got paid for making this?
Does this brand have a code of conduct?
Is freedom to join a union and a living wage included?
Is it monitored?
Are the monitoring reports open for the people?
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Boycotts?
No. The Clean Clothes Campaign wants workers to keep their jobs, so the worst
thing that can happen is that companies decide to cut their business in a factory or country and move somewhere else. We encourage consumers to keep
buying sportswear and for companies to keep making it - but in a way that
doesn‘t put intolerable pressure on workers to deliver it faster and cheaper,
often in poor working conditions. We ask consumers to help us tell the industry
to clean up its act and develop long-term ethical relationships with suppliers.
To be able to do that, the industry has to continue to operate at the factory and
in the country concerned.
6 Urgent Appeals (UA)
6.1
What is an Urgent Appeal?
Developing and circulating appeals for urgent action (called “Urgent Appeals” for
short) is one way how the Clean Clothes Campaign supports garment workers in specific cases where their rights have been violated.
An Urgent Appeal contains a request from workers or their organizations that people
take action (ex. write a letter/E-Mail of protest to a factory owner) to demonstrate support for workers’ demands in a situation where their rights are not being respected.
The Clean Clothes Campaign frequently receives appeals from workers producing
garments and sports shoes for companies that are part of the international supply
chains of major multinational brand name companies. These brand name companies
are vulnerable to public opinion regarding conditions at their suppliers, therefore
concern expressed by activists and the public can have an impact on the action such
companies take in relation to these cases. In recent years the campaign has taken up
an average of 30 cases per year in nearly as many countries.
6.2
Examples for Urgent Appeals
Attention to unsafe conditions in Bangladesh factories
In 2005 when yet another garment factory in Bangladesh turned into the site of a
terrible tragedy – this time the collapse of a building left 64 dead and 74 injured
– the Clean Clothes Campaign stepped up its campaigning on health and safety problems in the sector in Bangladesh. Over the years numerous fires and accidents had
left scores dead and injured, and despite some concerned noises from companies
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attention to the deplorable working conditions at their workplace several of the activists were put in prison. China Labour Bulletin took up the case, as did sportswear
company Reebok (a Stella client). The Clean Clothes Campaign reached out to other
companies producing at the factory: Nike, Timberland, Sears, Jones Apparel, Clark
Shoes, New Balance, Kenneth Cole, and Marc Jacobs to encourage them to contact
the Chinese authorities and factory management about this case. With a strong legal
case presented by their lawyers in China, as well as major media coverage there, the
positive intervention of some of the factory’s clients, and the support of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the workers sentences were reduced and
eventually they were released for time served.
and public authorities sadly after each incident it seemed to be business as usual.
Following the 2005 factory collapse the Clean Clothes Campaign targeted not only
the many European brands and retailers producing their clothes at the factory, but
also put pressure on all those sourcing in Bangladesh, as well as the government
and industry associations, to let them know that they had a life-or-death responsibility to ensure a safe workplace for the women and men making garments. As a
result health and safety standards have improved and efforts to monitor working
conditions have been strengthened.
Indonesian workers reinstated
Hundreds of workers were unjustly dismissed from their jobs at a factory in Indonesia
producing for the brands Polo, Ralph Lauren and Jones New York and US retailer The
Limited. This came about after management closed the factory in 2004 rather than
negotiate an agreement on wages with the workers’ union. The efforts of a multistakeholder organization (WRC) in the US, a public campaign in the US carried out
by the Campaign for Labor Rights, and the support of the Clean Clothes Campaign
network in Europe resulted in the reopening of the factory and the reinstatement of
the workers who wanted to return to the factory.
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Actions
A campaign like the Clean Clothes Campaign is done in boring offices, meetings,
telephone calls, e-mails, negotiations but first of all the Clean Clothes Campaign
like every campaign happens out on the street, it happens in the form of numerous
diverse actions by numerous diverse people and groups!
And these actions are at the very heart of the Clean Clothes Campaign! Without
hundreds of people doing hundreds of small actions on the street, in front of shops,
in their home, office or club the Clean Clothes Campaign would cease to exist, let
alone have any successes.
Imprisoned Chinese garment workers set free
When workers at a shoe factory in China staged massive protests in 2004 to draw
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We urge them to take inspiration from the spirit of the Olympics and demonstrate
to the world how the principles of fair play can be extended to the workplace. For
further information see www.playfair2008.org
7.2
Do it yourself - Actions for better working conditions in the
global garment industry
Actions are the tool through which you make the Clean Clothes Campaign work!
And it doesn’t have to be big; it is much more important that you do something
and thereby contribute with hundreds of others to fair working conditions in the
garment and sportswear industry.
You can organise an action alone, in a small group of friends or together with your
youth group, football or chess club, party, trade union or your colleagues at work. It
just depends on what you want, with whom you like to work and organize with and
what the size of your action should be.
Just to give you some examples:
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7.1
Play fair at the Olympics
2004, the „Play Fair“ campaign was one of the biggest ever mobilisations against abusive
labour conditions. Hundreds of organisations and many top athletes have participated
in over 35 countries and more than half a million signatures have been collected in support of the campaign before the Olympic Games in Athens. Over 500 local campaign
events have been organised and this has helped contribute to extensive coverage on
television, radio and in the press all over the world.
x
x
x
Collecting signatures for a Clean Clothes Campaign-petition at work
or from friends
Collecting signatures at a shopping street
Organise an ethical fashion show
Organise a Clean Clothes Campaign-solidarity fundraising party in
your town
In short: Everything goes, just try!
Play Fair 2008
Play Fair 2008 is an international campaign taking place in the lead up to the 2008 Olympic Games to push for respect for workers’ rights in the global sporting goods industry.
Play Fair 2008 is organized by: The Clean Clothes Campaign, the International Trade
Union Confederation (ITUC), and the International Textile, Garment and Leather
Worker’s Federation (ITGLWF). The campaign is also supported by a diverse coalition of
organizations worldwide.
We believe that sportswear and athletic footwear companies, the International Olympic
Committee (IOC), National Olympics Committees, as well as national governments must
take steps to eliminate the exploitation and abuse of workers in the global sporting
goods industry.
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3. Target group
Who is your target group and how can you reach them? What appeals to them most?
You will certainly choose another action and other means if you choose the general public
in a shopping street or the members of your own club or association as a target group.
4. Location
Where do you want your action to take place? What facilities do you find there?
Which equipment do you need to bring yourself? Do you meet your target group there?
5. Permission
Find out what permissions you need to have an action in your municipality or in your venue.
6. Date
When do you want to implement your action? Maybe you want to connect your
action with a commemoration day, action day or a public event. Please keep in mind
that you’ll in most cases need at least 2 months to prepare your action!
7. Materials
Think about which information materials and equipment you’ll need.
8 10 steps to a successful Clean Clothes Action
1. Planning group
You can be a member of an organisation or association or an individual activist.
Try to find support of a specialist and maybe a representative of the municipality or
another “local hero” and people who are willing to plan and implement an action
together. The planning group should not contain more than seven people due to
organisation interests.
You should nominate a project leader, and provide a time schedule. Arrange duties
and responsibilities and work step by step. Write the minutes of each meeting for
better lucidity and to inform absent planning group members.
Think about the transportation to the place of the action and back! Ask your national
Clean Clothes Campaign for information materials and other equipment.
8. Script
You’ll need a detailed time schedule and a list of responsible persons for the action.
9. Test run
Rehearse your action before you appear in public. Invite your friends to play your
audience.
2. Find your issue
This could be the latest Urgent Appeal of the Clean Clothes Campaign or an action for
better working conditions in the garment industry in general. Maybe you can use an
event in your municipality (like a marathon) or an event in your church or club. Have
a look at the Clean Clothes website in your country or at the international website
www.cleanclothes.org to see the active Urgent Appeal or petition currently going on.
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For example: invitations, flyers, posters, information materials, balloons, stickers,
Information signs, camera, information booths, banners, tents, electric generators,
microphone, music, “emergency kit” (a pair of scissors, tape, band-aid, nails, hammer,
screwdriver, writing utensils, string), food and beverage…
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10. Media work
If you want to, you can invite the local press to your action. Inform the appropriate journalists about your action and/or send out a press release including a press
appropriate picture and contact information.
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9 Contact
INKOTA-netzwerk e.V.
Greifswalder Str. 33a
10405 Berlin
T: +49-30-42804014
F: +49-30-4289112
[email protected]
www.inkota.de
www.inkota.de/eilaktion
Austria
Clean Clothes Kampagne
c/o Südwind Agentur
Laudongasse 40
1080 Vienna
T: +43-1-405-5515
F: +43-1-405-5519
[email protected]
www.cleanclothes.at
Poland
Germany
Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung
c/o Vereinte Evangelische Mission
Christiane Schnura
Rudolfstr. 131
42285 Wuppertal
T: +49-202-89004-316
F: +49-202-89004-79
[email protected]
www.sauberekleidung.de
Christliche Initiative Romero e.V.
Frauenstr. 3-7
48143 Münster
T: +49-251-89503
F: +49-251-82541
pfl[email protected]
[email protected]
www.ci-romero.de
KARAT Coalition
ul. Karmelicka 16 m. 13
00-163 Warsaw
T/F: +48-22-6368307
[email protected]
www.karat.org
The Netherlands
International Secretariat
Clean Clothes Campaign
Postbus 11584
1001 GN Amsterdam
T: +31-20-412-2785
F: +31-20-412-2786
[email protected]
http://www.cleanclothes.org
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