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Updated: July 8, 2008Home July 26, 2008Euro 2008 Supplier Gets Red Card for Workers' Rights
In the month before football players from 16 European nations kicked the ball over the line, 52 workers in Turkey learned about the other side of the Euro 2008 medal. They worked for the factory Mink Tekstil in Konya, Turkey which produces Euro 2008 logo goods. In June 2006, almost the entire workforce of Mink Tekstil (90 Percent) joined the textile trade union Teksif. Although Teksif was granted bargaining rights at Mink Tekstil, factory management refused to accept the union’s invitation to begin negotiations and instead launched an anti-union campaign, forcing workers to resign from the union under threats of dismissal, pay cuts, the conclusion of ‘under the table’ payments and transfer to other locations. As a result of the pressure, eight union members resigned from union membership. The dozens of other union members who refused to resign were dismissed. In this context, Teksif ended up losing its majority and hence its bargaining rights.

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LEADING SPORTS BRANDS, UNIONS, NGOs FORM WORKING GROUP Play Fair 2008 Pressrelease Brussels, 2 July 2008: A month before the start of the Beijing Olympics key sporting goods brands including Nike, adidas, New Balance, Umbro and Speedo are forming a ground breaking joint working group with trade unions and NGOs to explore amongst other issues how to promote trade unionism and collective bargaining as well as improving wages across the sector. The joint group is charged with determining how to prioritise and incentivise union organisation, collective bargaining and social dialogue. It will seek to establish a better understanding of how business is done including on manufacturing systems; costings; productivity; and information required for effective contract bargaining and dialogue. Approaches to contract labour, closure procedures and training for managers and workers will also be developed. Read more >>

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