SIGN THE PETITION: adidas, it’s time to Pay Your Workers
Millions of garment workers worldwide are losing their jobs without compensation, or receiving much less than their regular poverty wages. Most of these workers are women. Hunger forces those who still have jobs to put their lives at risk in unsafe workplaces.With #PayYourWorkers, we demand that adidas and other apparel brands and retailers:
- Pay the workers who make their clothes their full wages for the duration of the pandemic;
- Make sure workers are never again left penniless if their factory goes bankrupt, by signing onto a negotiated severance guarantee fund; and
- Protect workers’ right to organise and bargain collectively.
In total, our petitions urging brands to end wage theft and union-busting
have been signed almost 100,000 times.
What You Can Do Online
Post a photo of yourself with a #PayYourWorkers #RespectLabourRights sign.
Use one of our designs or make your own. Take a picture at home, in-front of a brand's website or in front of a store and post it online with the hashtag #PayYourWorkers #RespectLabourRights!
What You Can Do In Person
Make the clothing labels more accurate
Print our clothing labels (two sided - print larger than A4 then cut to size) and hide them in pockets and stacks of clothes in the shops. The label contains a QR code which takes you to our campaign page. If you make holes in the printouts you can even attach them to the actual clothing labels.
Clean clothes, clean pavements
Print out our stencils to reverse graffiti the shopping streets with a high pressure cleaner.
Chalk it up!
Chalk slogans and quotes on the shopping streets.
Wheatpaste
Print pictures of protesting workers and quotes and wheat-paste them around shops.
What You Can Do on Your Campus
Universities often have massive contracts with brands like Adidas, Nike and UnderArmour. They make millions from these sponsorship deals, so when brands steal from workers, universities profit. Using the unique leverage students have as the primary drivers of universities, students can force brands to pay workers the money they are owed.
