Thu 4 June 2015
From Simon McFarlane, secretary UNISON Scotland International Committee:
As you will have seen the FIFA story is continuing to grow
and run. We need to ensure everything possible is done to keep focus on labour
rights in Qatar. There is a lot of activity around the
Scotland v Qatar game tomorrow (Friday 5 June) in Edinburgh. The SFA have so far done little to
challenge Qatar on workers’ rights (over 1,400 deaths and the Kafala system –
all power lies with employer including whether you can leave).
If you can get to Edinburgh tomorrow and join the
campaigning activities, please do so, details below. If you can’t please
support the campaign in other ways. One simple thing you can do is print off an
A4 message from the Playfair Qatar site and post a selfie of yourself holding
it up (ideally with a football top on) , see: http://playfairqatar.org.uk/#section-fans-photos and http://playfairqatar.org.uk/scotland-v-qatar-june-5-2015/
.
There’s a Facebook page for tomorrow at https://www.facebook.com/events/1639123382985614/
