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Tell luxury clothing maker to respect workers' rights.
Exposed around the world for union-busting and sweatshop conditions, PPR, the French retailer that owns brands like Gucci, Brylane, FNAC, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Ellos, now is trying to run away from its responsibility to the workers who make its products. Tell PPR: "From Indiana to Indonesia -- respect workers' rights worldwide!"
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Subject:
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I am concerned by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute's (PPR) reaction to reports of illegal and abusive conditions at its operations and supplier factories around the world. In facilities where PPR goods are manufactured, sold or distributed workers are being punished for speaking out about their treatment and conditions.
At the Brylane distribution center in Indianapolis workers are subject to a campaign of harassment and intimidation aimed at preventing them from exercising their freedom to choose a union. In the Philippines and India where sweatshop conditions have been reported at PPR suppliers, rather than trying to ensure that its supplier firms have safe, legal and fair working conditions, PPR has cut off orders from its suppliers - jeopardizing workers who spoke the truth about their conditions.
Whether at its Brylane distribution center in Indianapolis, FNAC stores in Spain and France or at PPR suppliers in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and India, PPR has a responsibility to ensure that its goods are produced and handled under legal and ethical conditions.
At PPR operations and supplier firms in the United States, Europe and Asia, when workers try to exercise rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, or speak out about unsafe and abusive working conditions, their rights and livelihood need to be protected, not attacked.
I urge you to seek immediate solutions to the problems at Brylane and PPR's operations and supplier firms. I ask that you:
* Correct labor rights violations at the PPR supplier firms that have been reported, and, in order to ensure transparency, disclose the locations of all other PPR supplier factories. Other apparel retailers have already publicly disclosed the names and addresses of factory suppliers. PPR must seek remediation for workers at supplier factories - and not cut off orders or shift operations.
* End the anti-union campaign at PPR's Brylane subsidiary and respect the expressed will of a majority of Brylane employees to choose union representation. The freedom to join a union is recognized internationally as a fundamental human right.
* Immediately engage in good faith dialogue with trade unions and labor rights advocates to develop a company-wide policy covering all workers producing goods or services for the company, which is based on the Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work by the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Sincerely,
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