The campaigners want the IOC to include a clause in the Olympic charter and in its code of ethics ensuring that all companies involved in the manufacture of sportswear and other Olympic branded products do not exploit or abuse their workforce.
The Playfair 2012 campaign is keen to ensure that London 2012 becomes the first Olympic Games where the sportswear and merchandise has been produced in factories which treat their workers well. All too often workers in China, Indonesia and Turkey who have been employed to make goods for previous Games have complained of extreme pressure to meet production quotas, dangerous working conditions, extremely long hours and low wages.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “There has been exploitation and ill-treatment in the run up to every previous Olympic Games, and we fear that such abuses are unlikely to have disappeared completely. Only the IOC can stop those abuses for good, and we want them to put the Olympic ideal of fair play into practice in their code of ethics.”
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