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A pair of adidas shoes. Photo: Martin Wurt/OxfamAUS What adidas needs to do:
adidas claims to support labour rights. But adidas, in its buying practices, also wants high quality, fast, flexible and cheap production. This forces factories to choose between business and rights. It's time adidas lived up to the promises in its own code of conduct. adidas needs to:
- Make sure workers making its products are employed in the long-term, not just as short-term contractors
- Reward its supplier factories for treating workers well and allowing them to form trade unions
- Make information on its buying practices available to worker representatives. How can workers negotiate their wages if they don't know how much adidas is paying for each shoe?
- Publicly disclosing the list of factories that produce for adidas -
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In current factory campaigns, adidas should:
- Agree to the outstanding and modest demands of the Perbupas union regarding the Panarub workers, for example, that adidas should ensure jobs for those illegally dismissed workers who want them.
- Proactively work for the reopening of the Spotec and Dong Joe factories in Indonesia. If this proves impossible then adidas and factory management should ensure workers receive their full legal entitlements and support other negotiated benefits
- Place orders at the Tong Yang factory in Indonesia to allow that factory to continue operating
