Good news in MSP Sportswear Thai case

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Good news in MSP Sportswear Thai case: union activists reinstated in Thailand

Union activists at the MSP Sportswear factory in Thailand have been reinstated. This is great news and we thank everyone who sent letters of support for this campaign. An agreement has been reached between all involved parties. Activists and CLIST (the Thai organisations supporting the union at MSP) are satisfied with this agreement and call on the international campaign in support of the workers to be suspended. Click here for more information.

March 2005
Will Nike do it right in Thai factory?
This month's newsletter features debate between Nike and Oxfam Community Aid Abroad regarding the dismissal of union members from the MSP Sportswear factory in Thailand.
Here are the highlights:
1. Will NIKE to do the right thing at MSP Sportswear, Thailand?


Oxfam Community Aid Abroad has been writing to Nike in support of three union leaders dismissed for forming a union at MSP Sportswear in Thailand. Nike's latest response seems to indicate that international concern is starting to have an impact.

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2. Three Years is Enough! Sri Lankan workers want their jobs back

The Global Sports Lanka factory in Sri Lanka produces windsurfing sails under the North Sails label. Three years ago the factory dismissed 207 workers who took strike action to hold onto their existing conditions. Thirty-eight of these workers are still fighting to get their jobs back.

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3. Big win for workers' rights in USA - Taco Bell boycott over!

On 8 March Taco Bell finally responded to a four-year worker and consumer campaign by signing an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for a 'Penny a Pound' from Taco Bell directly to agricultural workers' producing tomatoes for Taco Bell. Oxfam was one of many organisations that supported the campaign.

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