Qatar World Cup - Please sign petition

[Lord Horn 0]

Dear All

 

Please find below details of the Qatar World Cup Workers Rights Campaign. Having looked at the website, it is alarming to read the predictions for the number of deaths during construction of the footballing venues. I have signed the petition and hope you will consider it too. Please forward to anyone else you think will be ouraged at the appalling conditions these workers are expected to work in for the sake of football.

 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION

ITUC announces top five countries to sign up to Qatar World Cup Workers Rights Campaign

Target of 20,000 campaign “fans” to fill virtual football stadium

Brussels, 25 October 2012 (ITUC OnLine):  Nearly 1,000 fans from over 100 countries have joined the global campaign “Qatar: Do the right thing. No World Cup without workers’ rights” in just four weeks.

Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said “Qatar still intends to build the 2022 World Cup on modern slavery of migrant workers.  The government doesn’t seem to care about the slew of media reports on how workers are paying with their lives and livelihoods in the rush to build the stadiums with cheap and exploited labour.  Even FIFA’s call on Qatar to respect labour standards has been ignored, so now we need people across the globe show Qatar that the world means business when we demand an end to slavery.”

Next week Sharan Burrow will announce the latest campaign leader-board at the annual ITUC General Council to union representatives from more than 50 countries.

This weeks’ top five has Japan leading with 86 campaign fans, followed by Korea (71), Pakistan (55), Belgium (52) and Sweden (49), with a total of nearly 1000 fans from over 100 countries.

The ITUC is calling on all its affiliates to engage union members and their communities in the online campaign

 

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“The ITUC is receiving new reports every day from migrant workers asking for help to get Qatari employers to pay them the wages they owe, to help them get back to their home countries when their bosses refuse to give their passports back, and to fix highly dangerous workplaces.

“Families in places like Nepal and the Philippines are desperate to find out the truth about how loved ones have died in Qatar.  By engaging in the Equal Times campaign, every individual can help put the pressure on Qatar’s rulers by telling them that there can be no World Cup without workers’ rights,” said Ms. Burrow.

The ITUC represents 175 million workers in 308 affiliated national organisations from 153 countries and territories.

Follow us on the web: http://www.ituc-csi.org/ <http://www.ituc-csi.org/>  and http://www.youtube.com/ITUCCSI <http://www.youtube.com/ITUCCSI>

For further information, please contact the ITUC Press Department on: +32 2 224 0204 or +32 476 62 10 18

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signed and shared on facebook.  It''s not like Qatar can''t afford to do this safely and properly.

[SwindonCanary 455]

Signed and tweeted (it that a word ?)

[Herman 9,825]

[Y]Cheers Lord.Will pass this on.

[drurys testamonials V 15 0]

Signed.

 

To think we complain of the price of football over here. Those figures are too high a price IMO.

[Lord Horn 0]

Thanks guys - would have put this on ''other football'' but thought it deserved a wider audience - anyway, bound to be at least half our squad involved in the World Cup when it comes around!!!!

[Miss Jane Marple 0]

My dear Lord Horn, many thanks for drawing our attention to the awful situation that is in Qatar. I have signed the petition and hope the many people who complained at paying £30 for a ticket against Spurs will be encouraged to sign also. Workers paying with their lives for football shows what a wicked system is in place in that country.

 

 

[GenerationA47 761]

Signed.

Excellent cause, thanks for sharing Horny.

[Lord Horn 0]

Please excuse me bumping this and keeping it in the frame a bit longer. [Y]