| From | GLJ-ILRF <[email protected]> |
| Subject | You’re Invited! Nov 2 - Fighting for Our Share: A Global Workers’ Forum |
| Date | October 24, 2023 9:54 PM |
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Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF) invites =
you to our virtual event:
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Fighting for Our Share: A Global Workers=E2=80=99 Forum on the Movement Aga=
inst Stock Buybacks and Corporate Greed
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November 2, 10am EST
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Please REGISTER HERE and you will receive a link 48 hours prior to the even=
t.
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Nike supply-chain worker leaders from Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) partn=
er unions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka will join worker leaders from the Comm=
unications Workers of America (CWA) and Service Employees International Uni=
on (SEIU) to share their experiences organizing in some of the world=E2=80=
=99s most unequal companies.=20
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We=E2=80=99re proud to host this meeting together with AFWA, CWA, SEIU, Ins=
titute for Policy Studies, Take on Wall Street, and Americans for Financial=
Reform Education Fund.=20
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In Solidarity,
Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum
Executive Director, GLJ-ILRF
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Background:
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Diah prints Nike=E2=80=99s iconic swoosh onto hundreds of gloves a day in a=
n Indonesian factory. In spring of 2020, she saw her hours and pay cut in h=
alf. Her family stopped eating meat or fish so they would be able to surviv=
e. She is one of millions of Asian garment workers, mostly women, who have =
still not recovered from massive wage losses triggered by brands who cancel=
ed and drastically reduced orders during the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, in =
the same months that Diah was laid off in 2020, the Nike-owning Knight fami=
ly (the 26th wealthiest family in the world), paid themselves $74 million i=
n dividends.
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Two years later, Big Fashion companies like Nike, reported record revenue g=
rowth and profits. Rather than using this windfall to pay back workers like=
Diah, Nike and other brands funneled revenue to their investors through st=
ock buybacks and dividends. The vast majority of garment workers who fuel B=
ig Fashion=E2=80=99s fortunes have been left unpaid and stuck in permanent =
crisis.
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In February 2023, GLJ-ILRF and AFWA launched the Fight the Heist campaign, =
in which garment worker unions from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia,=
Pakistan and Sri Lanka have come together with global allies to demand tha=
t Nike and other Big Fashion companies pay back millions of dollars in lost=
and stolen wages in their supply chains.
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In May, AFWA International Coordinator Anannya Bhattarcharjee spoke at a co=
ngressional press conference to reintroduce the Reward Work Act, legislatio=
n that would end stock buybacks. A week later, workers in six Asian countri=
es and US allies took to the street with demands for Nike and other brands:=
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Sit down with garment workers and their unions for a systematic investigati=
on of COVID wage claims, including specific impacts on women workers.
Stop billionaire payouts from dividends and stock buybacks until all garmen=
t workers are repaid their lost wages.
Transform their global supply chains including providing living wages for a=
ll workers.
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Fighting for Our Share is the next step in bringing together workers across=
the globe to push major companies to end stock buybacks and reinvest in wo=
rkers.
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nk/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64uZ0J=
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yle=3D"font-weight: 400;">Asia Floor Wage Alliance</span></a><span style=3D=
"font-weight: 400;"> (AFWA) partner unions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka will =
join worker leaders from the </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
mails/tracking/click-link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hS=
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America</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> (CWA) and </span><a hr=
ef=3D"[link removed]
0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64oEPonJx_QPid5VrERohlaY=
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padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight=
: 400;">Service Employees International Union</span></a><span style=3D"font=
-weight: 400;"> (SEIU) to share their experiences organizing in some of the=
world=E2=80=99s most unequal companies. </span></p> <p style=3D"color=
: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color=
: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: =
400;">We=E2=80=99re proud to host this meeting together with </span><a href=
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: 400;">CWA</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
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ng: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400=
;">SEIU</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href=3D"htt=
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HHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64lGKtB3PPtwhDLF9cND4G14=3D" styl=
e=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; padding: =
0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">I=
nstitute for Policy Studies</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, <=
/span><a href=3D"[link removed]
-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64gG0DYezK1TU=
uScqiKWH-C8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-weight=
: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"=
font-weight: 400;">Take on Wall Street</span></a>,<span style=3D"font-weigh=
t: 400;"> and </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
click-link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VI=
vf64mMgR78ki3fpAQWg3v8iMMg=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: no=
ne; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;">=
<span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Americans for Financial Reform Education =
Fund</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"fon=
t-weight: 400;">In Solidarity,</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-=
family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; M=
argin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-botto=
m: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Jennifer (=
JJ) Rosenbaum</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Ar=
ial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-al=
ign: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-b=
ottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Executive Director, GLJ-ILR=
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yle=3D"word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; color: #3c4144; font-fam=
ily: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; text-align: lef=
t; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0 auto; Margin: 0 auto; word-=
break: break-word; width: 564px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 24px; b=
order-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 24px;"><p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong><em>Backgr=
ound:</em></strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Ari=
al,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-ali=
gn: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bo=
ttom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Ari=
al,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-ali=
gn: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bo=
ttom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Diah prints Nike=E2=80=99s i=
conic swoosh onto hundreds of gloves a day in an Indonesian factory. In spr=
ing of 2020, she saw her hours and pay cut in half. Her family stopped eati=
ng meat or fish so they would be able to survive. She is one of millions of=
Asian garment workers, mostly women, who have still not recovered from mas=
sive wage losses triggered by brands who canceled and drastically reduced o=
rders during the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, in the same months that Diah wa=
s laid off in 2020, the Nike-owning Knight family (the 26</span><span style=
=3D"font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> wealthie=
st family in the world), paid themselves $74 million in dividends.</span></=
p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-w=
eight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: =
12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span st=
yle=3D"font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; fon=
t-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0;=
Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bot=
tom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Two year=
s later, Big Fashion companies like Nike, reported record revenue growth an=
d profits. Rather than using this windfall to pay back workers like Diah, N=
ike and other brands funneled revenue to their investors through stock buyb=
acks and dividends. The vast majority of garment workers who fuel Big Fashi=
on=E2=80=99s fortunes have been left unpaid and stuck in permanent crisis.<=
/span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif=
; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fon=
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</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif=
; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fon=
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<span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">In February 2023, GLJ-ILRF and AFWA launc=
hed the </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64jP=
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nt-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><stron=
g><em>Fight the Heist</em></strong></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> c=
ampaign, in which garment worker unions from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, I=
ndonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have come together with global allies to d=
emand that Nike and other Big Fashion companies pay back millions of dollar=
s in lost and stolen wages in their supply chains.</span></p> <p style=3D"c=
olor: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-heigh=
t: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"c=
olor: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-heigh=
t: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weig=
ht: 400;">In May, AFWA International Coordinator Anannya Bhattarcharjee spo=
ke at a congressional press conference to reintroduce the </span><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
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ng: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400=
;">Reward Work Act</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, legislatio=
n that would end stock buybacks. A week later, workers in six Asian countri=
es and US allies took to the street with demands for Nike and other brands:=
</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,san=
s-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: le=
ft; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: =
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level=3D"1"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Sit down with garment workers=
and their unions for a systematic investigation of COVID wage claims, incl=
uding specific impacts on women workers.</span></li>=20
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rgin: 0; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0; word-break: break-word; lis=
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level=3D"1"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Stop billionaire payouts from=
dividends and stock buybacks until all garment workers are repaid their lo=
st wages.</span></li>=20
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rgin: 0; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0; word-break: break-word; lis=
t-style: disc outside; mso-special-format: bullet; font-weight: 400;" aria-=
level=3D"1"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Transform their global supply=
chains including providing living wages for all workers.</span></li>=20
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left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-botto=
m: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,=
sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align:=
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-botto=
m: 10px;"><strong><em>Fighting for Our Share</em></strong><span style=3D"fo=
nt-weight: 400;"> is the next step in bringing together workers across the =
globe to push major companies to end stock buybacks and reinvest in workers=
.</span></p></th>=20
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Fighting for Our Share: A Global Workers’ Forum on the Movement Against Stock Buybacks and Corporate Greed
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Please REGISTER HERE and you will receive a link 48 hours prior to the event.
Nike supply-chain worker leaders from Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) partner unions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka will join worker leaders from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to share their experiences organizing in some of the world’s most unequal companies.
We’re proud to host this meeting together with AFWA, CWA, SEIU, Institute for Policy Studies, Take on Wall Street, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.
In Solidarity,
Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum
Executive Director, GLJ-ILRF
Background:
Diah prints Nike’s iconic swoosh onto hundreds of gloves a day in an Indonesian factory. In spring of 2020, she saw her hours and pay cut in half. Her family stopped eating meat or fish so they would be able to survive. She is one of millions of Asian garment workers, mostly women, who have still not recovered from massive wage losses triggered by brands who canceled and drastically reduced orders during the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, in the same months that Diah was laid off in 2020, the Nike-owning Knight family (the 26th wealthiest family in the world), paid themselves $74 million in dividends.
Two years later, Big Fashion companies like Nike, reported record revenue growth and profits. Rather than using this windfall to pay back workers like Diah, Nike and other brands funneled revenue to their investors through stock buybacks and dividends. The vast majority of garment workers who fuel Big Fashion’s fortunes have been left unpaid and stuck in permanent crisis.
In February 2023, GLJ-ILRF and AFWA launched the Fight the Heist campaign, in which garment worker unions from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have come together with global allies to demand that Nike and other Big Fashion companies pay back millions of dollars in lost and stolen wages in their supply chains.
In May, AFWA International Coordinator Anannya Bhattarcharjee spoke at a congressional press conference to reintroduce the Reward Work Act, legislation that would end stock buybacks. A week later, workers in six Asian countries and US allies took to the street with demands for Nike and other brands:
Sit down with garment workers and their unions for a systematic investigation of COVID wage claims, including specific impacts on women workers.
Stop billionaire payouts from dividends and stock buybacks until all garment workers are repaid their lost wages.
Transform their global supply chains including providing living wages for all workers.
Fighting for Our Share is the next step in bringing together workers across the globe to push major companies to end stock buybacks and reinvest in workers.
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argin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c=
4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; m=
argin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; m=
argin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong><em>Fighting for Our Shar=
e: A Global Workers=E2=80=99 Forum on the Movement Against Stock Buybacks a=
nd Corporate Greed</em></strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-famil=
y: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin=
: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10=
px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-famil=
y: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin=
: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10=
px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>November 2, 10am EST</strong></p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"fon=
t-weight: 400;">Please </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
tracking/click-link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3=
lsyLNN0VIvf64vkTFGYdu0Y1cZsOqE-8WY8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decor=
ation: none; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-heigh=
t: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">REGISTER HERE</span></a><span st=
yle=3D"font-weight: 400;"> and you will receive a link 48 hours prior to th=
e event.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: =
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom=
: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: =
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom=
: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Nike supply-chain worker leaders=
from </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
nk/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64uZ0J=
zTaZlwI5LTl_Vplrn8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font=
-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span st=
yle=3D"font-weight: 400;">Asia Floor Wage Alliance</span></a><span style=3D=
"font-weight: 400;"> (AFWA) partner unions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka will =
join worker leaders from the </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
mails/tracking/click-link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hS=
sOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64tBPfUnVZu9VJzP3v9jNDuE=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text=
-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line=
-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Communications Workers of =
America</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> (CWA) and </span><a hr=
ef=3D"[link removed]
0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64oEPonJx_QPid5VrERohlaY=
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padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight=
: 400;">Service Employees International Union</span></a><span style=3D"font=
-weight: 400;"> (SEIU) to share their experiences organizing in some of the=
world=E2=80=99s most unequal companies. </span></p> <p style=3D"color=
: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color=
: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: =
400;">We=E2=80=99re proud to host this meeting together with </span><a href=
=3D"[link removed]
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padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight=
: 400;">AFWA</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href=
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padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight=
: 400;">CWA</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
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style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; paddi=
ng: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400=
;">SEIU</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href=3D"htt=
ps://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBX=
HHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64lGKtB3PPtwhDLF9cND4G14=3D" styl=
e=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; padding: =
0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">I=
nstitute for Policy Studies</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, <=
/span><a href=3D"[link removed]
-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VIvf64gG0DYezK1TU=
uScqiKWH-C8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-weight=
: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"=
font-weight: 400;">Take on Wall Street</span></a>,<span style=3D"font-weigh=
t: 400;"> and </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
click-link/wMGv-dru4CyJ7rw0Cg2AcyBXHHsRfhhvBHZVL-3tndg=3D/hSsOLJh3lsyLNN0VI=
vf64mMgR78ki3fpAQWg3v8iMMg=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: no=
ne; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;">=
<span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Americans for Financial Reform Education =
Fund</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"fon=
t-weight: 400;">In Solidarity,</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-=
family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; M=
argin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-botto=
m: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Jennifer (=
JJ) Rosenbaum</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Ar=
ial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-al=
ign: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-b=
ottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Executive Director, GLJ-ILR=
F</span></p></th>=20
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yle=3D"word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; color: #3c4144; font-fam=
ily: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; text-align: lef=
t; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0 auto; Margin: 0 auto; word-=
break: break-word; width: 564px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 24px; b=
order-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 24px;"><p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong><em>Backgr=
ound:</em></strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Ari=
al,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-ali=
gn: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bo=
ttom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Ari=
al,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-ali=
gn: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bo=
ttom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Diah prints Nike=E2=80=99s i=
conic swoosh onto hundreds of gloves a day in an Indonesian factory. In spr=
ing of 2020, she saw her hours and pay cut in half. Her family stopped eati=
ng meat or fish so they would be able to survive. She is one of millions of=
Asian garment workers, mostly women, who have still not recovered from mas=
sive wage losses triggered by brands who canceled and drastically reduced o=
rders during the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, in the same months that Diah wa=
s laid off in 2020, the Nike-owning Knight family (the 26</span><span style=
=3D"font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> wealthie=
st family in the world), paid themselves $74 million in dividends.</span></=
p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-w=
eight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: =
12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span st=
yle=3D"font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; fon=
t-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0;=
Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bot=
tom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Two year=
s later, Big Fashion companies like Nike, reported record revenue growth an=
d profits. Rather than using this windfall to pay back workers like Diah, N=
ike and other brands funneled revenue to their investors through stock buyb=
acks and dividends. The vast majority of garment workers who fuel Big Fashi=
on=E2=80=99s fortunes have been left unpaid and stuck in permanent crisis.<=
/span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif=
; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fon=
t-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">=
</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif=
; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fon=
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<span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">In February 2023, GLJ-ILRF and AFWA launc=
hed the </span><a href=3D"[link removed]
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o_BrT-KZXdfor3L26rwI=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; fo=
nt-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><stron=
g><em>Fight the Heist</em></strong></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> c=
ampaign, in which garment worker unions from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, I=
ndonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have come together with global allies to d=
emand that Nike and other Big Fashion companies pay back millions of dollar=
s in lost and stolen wages in their supply chains.</span></p> <p style=3D"c=
olor: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-heigh=
t: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"c=
olor: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-heigh=
t: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weig=
ht: 400;">In May, AFWA International Coordinator Anannya Bhattarcharjee spo=
ke at a congressional press conference to reintroduce the </span><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
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ng: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400=
;">Reward Work Act</span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">, legislatio=
n that would end stock buybacks. A week later, workers in six Asian countri=
es and US allies took to the street with demands for Nike and other brands:=
</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,san=
s-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: le=
ft; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: =
10px;"> </p>=20
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rgin: 0; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0; word-break: break-word; lis=
t-style: disc outside; mso-special-format: bullet; font-weight: 400;" aria-=
level=3D"1"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Sit down with garment workers=
and their unions for a systematic investigation of COVID wage claims, incl=
uding specific impacts on women workers.</span></li>=20
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rgin: 0; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0; word-break: break-word; lis=
t-style: disc outside; mso-special-format: bullet; font-weight: 400;" aria-=
level=3D"1"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Stop billionaire payouts from=
dividends and stock buybacks until all garment workers are repaid their lo=
st wages.</span></li>=20
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rgin: 0; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0; word-break: break-word; lis=
t-style: disc outside; mso-special-format: bullet; font-weight: 400;" aria-=
level=3D"1"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Transform their global supply=
chains including providing living wages for all workers.</span></li>=20
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sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align:=
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-botto=
m: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Roboto,Arial,=
sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align:=
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-botto=
m: 10px;"><strong><em>Fighting for Our Share</em></strong><span style=3D"fo=
nt-weight: 400;"> is the next step in bringing together workers across the =
globe to push major companies to end stock buybacks and reinvest in workers=
.</span></p></th>=20
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Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF) invites you to our virtual event:
Fighting for Our Share: A Global Workers’ Forum on the Movement Against Stock Buybacks and Corporate Greed
November 2, 10am EST
Please REGISTER HERE and you will receive a link 48 hours prior to the event.
Nike supply-chain worker leaders from Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) partner unions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka will join worker leaders from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to share their experiences organizing in some of the world’s most unequal companies.
We’re proud to host this meeting together with AFWA, CWA, SEIU, Institute for Policy Studies, Take on Wall Street, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.
In Solidarity,
Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum
Executive Director, GLJ-ILRF
Background:
Diah prints Nike’s iconic swoosh onto hundreds of gloves a day in an Indonesian factory. In spring of 2020, she saw her hours and pay cut in half. Her family stopped eating meat or fish so they would be able to survive. She is one of millions of Asian garment workers, mostly women, who have still not recovered from massive wage losses triggered by brands who canceled and drastically reduced orders during the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, in the same months that Diah was laid off in 2020, the Nike-owning Knight family (the 26th wealthiest family in the world), paid themselves $74 million in dividends.
Two years later, Big Fashion companies like Nike, reported record revenue growth and profits. Rather than using this windfall to pay back workers like Diah, Nike and other brands funneled revenue to their investors through stock buybacks and dividends. The vast majority of garment workers who fuel Big Fashion’s fortunes have been left unpaid and stuck in permanent crisis.
In February 2023, GLJ-ILRF and AFWA launched the Fight the Heist campaign, in which garment worker unions from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have come together with global allies to demand that Nike and other Big Fashion companies pay back millions of dollars in lost and stolen wages in their supply chains.
In May, AFWA International Coordinator Anannya Bhattarcharjee spoke at a congressional press conference to reintroduce the Reward Work Act, legislation that would end stock buybacks. A week later, workers in six Asian countries and US allies took to the street with demands for Nike and other brands:
Sit down with garment workers and their unions for a systematic investigation of COVID wage claims, including specific impacts on women workers.
Stop billionaire payouts from dividends and stock buybacks until all garment workers are repaid their lost wages.
Transform their global supply chains including providing living wages for all workers.
Fighting for Our Share is the next step in bringing together workers across the globe to push major companies to end stock buybacks and reinvest in workers.
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