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- Adidas bombarded with 3,000 messages supporting Indonesian workers Aug 08
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Stepping up the campaign in support of the Indonesian ex-Spotec and Dong Joe workers over the past 3 months - 2,900 French citizens have asked adidas to take immediate action to implement the workers concerns.
Spotec and Dong Joe workers have been fighting for their entitlements and for new jobs with adidas ever since adidas withdrew orders from these factories in 2006. Together with letters from Australia, a total of 3,145 people have contacted to adidas since March 2008.
Despite some good progress in the recruitment of some ex-Spotec workers into adidas’ new Ching Luh (CLI) supplier factory, we understand that CLI will not have capacity to hire all the 10,500 workers who lost their jobs. Considering this, adidas should provide opportunities for the ex-Spotec and Dong Joe workers, who are still seeking work, to find jobs in other adidas suppliers in a location close to where they are now living in Indonesia. Oxfam Australia wrote to adidas in July about the Spotec and Dong Joe workers.
- Factory closures leave thousands without work June 08
- We continue to encourage adidas to employ the 4,500 ex-Spotec workers at its new Ching Luh supplier factory. Taiwanese investors bought the bankrupt Spotec factory. We are closely monitoring the recruitment process at this new factory to ensure that adidas keeps its promise to prioritise ex-Spotec workers. Find out more
- We ask for action on Offside! report Jan 08
- In Jan 2008, we wrote to adidas asking that it act on the Offside! report's key recommendations for making conditions fairer for workers in supplier factories.
Check out our correspondence with adidas at Offside! update