TOKYO (AP) — An international trade union wants IOC President Thomas Bach to intervene and investigate alleged labor and safety violations at venues being built for next year’s Tokyo Olympics. The Building and Wood Workers’ International has been critical for several years of workers’ rights at Olympic venues. In face-to-face meetings and in writing it has asked local organizers, Tokyo’s municipal government, and the Japan Sport Council, for outside inspections of construction sites and the right to interview workers. “However, our attempts to achieve justice for complainants have been consistently rebuffed by the three implementing agencies,” the international union said in an open letter this week to Bach. The union asks the International Olympic Committee to “intervene and directly address human rights abuses when local organizing committee fail to do so.” The BWI, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, only an hour’s drive … [Read more...] about IOC’s Bach asked to intervene in Tokyo Olympic labor dispute
