Sportswear giant Adidas should stop back-pedalling, support human rights and deliver on its promise to insist on the reinstatement of dismissed union leaders at a factory that manufactures its football boots promoted by World Cup stars David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane, says international agency Oxfam.
"Adidas is now the top sportswear sponsor at the World Cup with two teams, Germany and France, getting to the semi-finals," said Kelly Dent of Oxfam International. "But off the field, the company deserves a red card for failing to support the human rights of workers."
In October 2005, 33 trade union leaders at the Panarub factory in Indonesia were sacked after calling for their pay to be raised in line with inflation during a one-day strike. The factory makes Adidas- Predator and +F50.6 TUNIT football boots.
In late May 2006, the Indonesian Human Rights Commission called the dismissals illegal and that the workers’ human rights had been violated. Adidas indicated in a June 15 letter to Oxfam that it fully supported the Commission’s findings and would insist that its supplier reinstate the dismissed union leaders.
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