Thread by @randallbreanna

This is from @adidas website:
"Workers must have access to effective communication channels with their employers and managers... as a means of exercising their social and economic rights"

#adidas #speakupforMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

adidas-group.com/en/sustainabil…

But 73 days into the #myanmarmilitarycoup, and @adidas has made no concerted effort to assure the public or their workers as to whether they are actually committed to making sure their workers are guaranteed this access they tout on their corporate website.

@adidas did not issue a statement after the bloody garment district crackdown Mar 14.

And they haven't troubled themselves to issue ANY statements in Burmese language for their customers or workers. Their Myanmar store's FB page has also been largely silent.
#adidasforMyanmar

On March 15, a factory manager in Myanmar’s main garment district called in security forces on staff who had come to collect wages. Five were killed, and more were injured.

https://twitter.com/Myanmar_Now_Eng/status/1372115663117033476

This moment, when workers shot dead for coming to collect pay, would have been the right time for brands to assure the public that they would make sure their factory managers didn’t do the same.


But no: everyone stayed silent, including @adidas.

We can give #Adidas credit for this: they aren't pretending to care about social responsibility.

Their silence says it all: they don't care.

We need to find a way to make them--and all the other major garment brands--care.
Worker's rights is the issue of this era.

our @adidas campaign is a story in @MotherJones right now!

Thank you to everyone who posted and amplified it for the world to hear. Keep making noise--let's keeping thinking up new ways to hold these businesses accountable.

reporting by @sjmichaels
motherjones.com/politics/2021/…