LO and NFF proposes requirements for independent inspections for World Cup organizers.
TV2 images from housing conditions to foreign workers in Qatar has aroused disgust. VM-workers live under very poor conditions and they live in practice a life as slaves.
In a letter to FIFA President Joseph Blatter, signed Norwegian football president Yngve Hallén and LO leader Gerd Kristiansen, dated 12 . May this year, encourages the Norwegian representatives FIFA to work harder to improve conditions.
– Sport for All and Fair Play is good and healthy values that have been the mainstay of early. These are values that must be defended and developed. It is therefore sad to see that these values are challenged and sometimes set aside by the host country, politicians and employers in the country that is hosting major international sports events. We all have a responsibility to defend and strengthen human rights and labor rights, writes Hallén and Kristiansen in the letter.
Want uavhenige inspections
– The construction of infrastructure in Qatar in connection with football World Cup 2022 has attracted much attention. This is positive because it gives us the impetus to contribute to improving working conditions in Qatar. This is an opportunity we can not let go of us.
– Norwegian Football Association and Unions in Norway suggest that efforts that it carried out inspections of working conditions in Qatar conducted by delegations consisting of representatives from FIFA and ITUC ( International Labour Organization, journ.anm). This will provide information and a good opportunity to follow up the agreements made between the Qatar Foundation and FIFA 2022. We will also propose that FIFA in connection with the award of the football World Cup takes with that allocation requirements of such an independent inspection shall be carried out regularly , says the letter – which you can read in its entirety at the bottom of the case.
Several have meant that Norway and other football nations should boycott the championship in Qatar. NFF president Yngve Hallén says Nettavisen that it is out of the question.
Tom Tvedt: – Do not believe in boycotts of tools
Coming idrettspresident and current board member of the NIF, Tom Tvedt, endorses behind Halléns views.
– That basically I am very critical and skeptical that we give arrangement to countries that violate labor and human rights. Sentence. It is my clear approach to it, says Tvedt told Aftenposten.
– Norwegian sports are part of the Norwegian society and endorses the Norwegian foreign policy. In our channels we work systematically with this. We do not believe in boycotts as a tool, but we believe in dialogue and participation, says the upcoming sports president of Rogaland.
The organization Amnesty International feared in 2013 that up to 4,000 migrant workers would lose their lives in building work within Qatar- VM becomes a reality in 2022.
Believe NFF must push FIFA
Qatar has promised to improve working conditions, but in a discouraging report, which was published by Amnesty Thursday shows that it erased has been no development.
– Hopes of improvement and progress in working conditions fade quickly. Qatar fails foreign workers. Last year they promised improvement, but so far there have been no significant changes in the work to protect human rights, it is stated in the report.
In an e-mail to Aftenposten urges Amnesty Norway NFF to increase pressure on FIFA.
– NFF must use their contacts and channels to Qatar to change practices on a number of points. Qatar must ensure that all workers get paid. They must put in place safeguards and ensure that workers are living and working under medically justifiable circumstances. They must allow unionisation. Moreover, Qatar repeal exit prohibitions for foreign workers, they must stop confiscating workers ‘passports, and they must cooperate with workers’ home countries to prevent exploitation, says Amnesty.
See full appeal from Amnesty Norway in separate box.
Yngve Hallén pointed out that several Norwegian companies have long lived in Qatar, but that is only when football come to the country that it is controversial. He thinks it is positive that football focuses on the miserable working conditions, and that it offers hope of recovery.
– Most contractors who are there come from Western countries. We have large Norwegian companies there. We have governments that collaborate with them, also with the idea that this is the only way to improve on. This remedy is to have dialogue with them. Then it will be strange if football will be the one who does it in a completely different way, says Hallén Nettavisen.
Sandefjord coach Lars Bohinen believes the situation in Qatar is something football may not be familiar with.– I think it is totally unacceptable for the football family to accept that things like that happen. And this is something NFF or other must address, in the form of any protest, saying Bohinen.
– No union should be familiar with that kind of relationship. Man reacts very strongly when young children bearing soccer, but this is purely slave labor under very poor conditions. There is no less reason to be clear about what is right and wrong when, say Sandefjord boss.
– The beauty of being a high-profile athlete, is that one has the opportunity to express themselves in different contexts. Man is a role model and you can use it in cases they are passionate about. Protrude nose even though the topic has nothing to do with sports. I think it’s far too few do. Some have a notion that politics and sport should not mix, but it is so wrong that it can be, believes Bohinen.
Cooperation between international trade union movement and FIFA to ensure the safeguarding of human rights and labor rights in the host country for the soccer World Cup.
The sport is a positive force in society. Sport for All and Fair Play is good and healthy values that have been the mainstay of early. These are values that must be defended and developed. It is therefore sad to see that these values are challenged and sometimes set aside by the host country, politicians and employers in the country that is hosting major international sports events. We all have a responsibility to defend and strengthen human rights and labor rights.
Norwegian Football Association and Unions in Norway wants the international trade union movement together with FIFA are working together to improve working conditions for employees working on building infrastructure in connection with future football World Cup. FIFA and ITUC can together be a force to put important issues on the agenda and improve working conditions for thousands of workers both now and in the future.
In connection with Norway’s Olympic application for the Olympic and Paralympic toys for 2022 signed Norwegian trade unions and the Norwegian Sports an agreement on how we before and during the Olympic and Paralympic Games be able to ensure that human rights and labor rights were respected. The initiative is followed up by the ITUC in dialogue with the IOC. The collaboration has contributed to important and significant improvements in the work of the International Olympic Committee.
In Norway we have good experiences from the preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Lillehammer in 1994. Experiences today we players further on in the work of Youth Olympic Games in 2016 in Lillehammer. The work is based in part on cooperation between the involved principals, employers and Trade Unions in Norway where, through dialogue and cooperation contribute to better health, safety and environment in the businesses that build infrastructure.
The construction of infrastructure in Qatar in connection with the World Cup in 2022 has received much attention. This is positive because it gives us the impetus to contribute to improving working conditions in Qatar. This is an opportunity we can not let go of us.
Norwegian Football Association and Unions in Norway suggest that efforts that it carried out inspections of working conditions in Qatar conducted by delegations consisting of representatives from FIFA and ITUC (International Labour Organization, journ.anm). This will provide information and a good opportunity to follow up the agreements made between the Qatar Foundation and FIFA 2022. We will also propose that FIFA in connection with the award of the football World Cup takes with that allocation requirements of such an independent inspection shall be carried out regularly , says the letter – which you can read in its entirety at the bottom of the matter.
Norwegian Football Association and Unions in Norway sees that the current situation is a golden opportunity to strengthen cooperation between sports movement and the labor movement. We look forward to having a dialogue with FIFA and ITUC and that together we can be a force for positive change.
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