April 9,
2008Call on
adidas to Improve its Performance in Indonesia,
Re-Employ Mistreated Workers
 adidas
must take action to address systemic labour
violations in Indonesia. It can begin by making
amends for the illegal and unfair treatment
of workers at PT Spotec and PT Dong Joe who
were left with nothing when the factories
abruptly closed.
The In November 2006, 10,500 workers at PT
Dong Joe and PT Spotec suddenly found themselves
out of a job when the factories abruptly closed.
To make matters worse, workers did not receive
their severance and other entitlements for
many months, leaving them with nothing. Full
entitlements have still not been paid to all
workers.
  
Jan
29 , 2008
Message to Adidas: Dismissed Workers Deserve
New Jobs!
Adidas
must ensure employment of unfairly dismissed
Panarub workers
In October
2005, 33 workers from PT Panarub Factory
in Tangerang (near Jakarta) were unfairly
dismissed after they demanded better working
conditions and participated in a legal strike
asking for better pay for workers. The factory’s
11,500 workers produced sports shoes for
Adidas and other sportswear brands, and
were paid as little as 60 cents an hour
despite a dramatic rise in the cost of living
in Indonesia. In response, the factory management
fired nearly all of the leaders of the union,
Perbupas, in an effort to stop the workers
from fighting for better working conditions
and exercising their right to freedom of
association.
 
May
30, 2007 Workers
Successfully Negotiate Settlement at BJ&B
The
CCC is pleased to report that workers at the
BJ&B garment factory in the Dominican Republic
have succeeded in obtaining a satisfactory
severance agreement.
Thanks to everyone who wrote letters to Nike
and adidas urging them to press their supplier
to negotiate a fair settlement for the workers!
The settlement provides for three months'
severance pay above what is legally required
by Dominican law, and includes a donation
of 200,000 pesos to the union and its parent
federation for organising and educational
programs.
Jan
3, 2007 Hermosa:
emergency fund set up and new action request
In
2006 we have several times asked you to support
the Hermosa workers, whose factory closed
in may 2005 following an attempt to organize
a union.
A determined group of 63 workers has since
been campaigning to receive their legally
owed severance and other payments, and to
end the blacklisting that prevents them from
getting new jobs in the Maquila.
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