Ethical Clothing in the Sports Industry
With South Africa hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup I thought the following information on the working conditions related to the manufacturing of sportswear brands would be of interest.
I have tried to find out from various sources including FIFA about FIFA related apparel merchandise that is being and will be sold in South Africa. My questions to FIFA and the SA apparel and retail industry is what percentage of FIFA merchandise will be made by South African clothing companies? The response … still waiting.
In response to protests about working conditions in their supply factories, some sportswear brands have developed labour rights monitoring and compliance programs and taken action on a number of issues and cases. Despite these efforts, substantial violations of worker rights and poverty wages are still the norm for workers in the sportswear industry Click here for an interesting read.
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