Tell Boris to stop sweatshops
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
Get London to join the Worker Rights Consortium
All over the world, garment workers’ rights are systematically abused. Abuses of workers’ rights are not just a problem for universities, but the whole public and private sectors. This applies to London, our capital city too.
Take the uniforms that public sector workers wear. Fire fighters, nurses and ambulance drivers wear uniforms made in countries in the Global South. Many of these workers will be mistreated.
Boris Johnson can change that.
The London Assembly has now voted in favour of doing more to stop using sweatshops. They are considering what to do, so we need to keep up the pressure. We need to make clear to Boris Johnson that we won’t settle for anything less than a fully transparent, worker-led monitoring organisation. We won’t settle for anything less than the Worker Rights Consortium.
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Sign the petition below calling on Boris Johnson to sign up London to the Worker Rights Consortium.
Write to your London Assembly Member asking them to push Boris Johnson to affiliate London to the Worker Rights Consortium. We’ve got a democratic mandate, make sure they stick to it!
Submit a motion to your trade union branch. The more of us that get behind this, the stronger our chance of success.
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Sweatshops out of London
All over the world, garment workers’ rights are systematically abused. Abuses of workers’ rights are not just a problem for universities, but the whole public and private sectors. This applies to London, our capital city too.
Take the uniforms that public sector workers wear. Fire fighters, nurses and ambulance drivers wear uniforms made in countries in the Global South. Many of these workers will be mistreated. This includes the people that make uniforms for the Greater London Authority.
Boris Johnson can change that.
The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) monitors the treatment of workers in garment factories. It educates workers about their rights and monitors factories on an ongoing basis to check those rights are upheld.
In the past, the WRC has uncovered union busting, sexual abuse and poverty wages – and helped put a stop to it. The WRC is led by what workers actually say – not cover-ups by corporations.
On 14th November 2011, the London Assembly voted to investigate affiliating the Greater London Authority to the WRC. San Francisco and Los Angeles have joined. Let’s make sure London joins too.
We, the undersigned, call on Boris Johnson to heed this vote, and affiliate the Greater London Authority to the Worker Rights Consortium.
