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31 Mar 2011

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ITUC - International Trade Union Confederation

[PDF] A Sporting Chance for Workers: Launch of the Play Fair Campaign in Brazil

An international conference organised by Play Fair and the Building Workers’ International is opening today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Conference will launch the BWI Campaign around the World Cup 2014, as well as the Olympic Games 2016 Play Fair Campaign....The campaigners want FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, together with the local organizing committees, to accept their responsibility to make sure all production and construction around the events is done under decent working conditions…the workers…who are making the merchandise for the events…are too often victims of abuses and work in indecent conditions....Representatives from the British Trade Union Congress will also take part in the Brazil conference, to brief the local trade unions on their work in the Play Fair campaign around the London 2012 Olympics...Play Fair is a global campaign that involves different international trade union federations and NGOs.