GAA jerseys questions

[supersub]

2 stripes are sold on the website as well as the 3 stripe. As mentioned 2 stripe is for outside the country!

[DoireGael]

So do the Gaastore and elverys not sell internationally either the 3 stripes?

BTW whats the old opinion on the tight fit jerseys, never had sorer nipples tbh, but make ya look like the side of a wall or a keg in somecases. 

[CompulsoryTillager]

Article on this subject coming soon on the website Pride In the Jersey. For those who like reading legalese:

Adidas (the plaintiff) commenced operations in 1947 as manufacturer and distributor of sports footwear which was marked with a distinctive design and fashion of three diagonal coloured stripes on each boot. In 1967 Adidas began to manufacture sportswear such as tracksuits which had a distinctive three stripe design down the sides of the arms and legs of the tracksuits and jerseys manufactured by that company. In 1976, the plaintiff began manufacturing their products in Ireland which brought them into competition with the defendants (O'Neill & Co). The defendants were long established in the Irish sports market, manufacturing its own sports apparel. In 1965 O'Neill began putting stripes on its products. The number of stripes varied on what was ordered from 1 to 3 but within a few years it concentrated on a three stripe design. Evidence was given at the trial that the three stripe design has been used by manufacturers of sports wear in many other countries, but that Adidas were the only manufacturers who exclusively used the particular arrangement of light coloured stripes of equal width set against a differently coloured background. Adidas claimed that O'Neill by the use of the three striped design in the manner stated was passing off the products as the products of Adidas. The defendant claimed that the Adidas three striped design was not part of the goodwill of Adidas. To establish such a claim for passing off the plaintiff would have to prove that he had an exclusive association with a particular design on its products in Ireland.

In the High Court it was held by MacWilliam J that the plaintiff had failed to establish essential reputation in Ireland in relation to the three stripe design and that no confusion had been caused by the defendant's use of the three stripe design.

Held By O'Higgins CJ, Hederman J concurring dismissing the appeal.

1. The use of the stripes of varying colours and numbers on sports garments was a fashion in the trade and that the defendants in resorting to fashionable demands had not attempted to deceive or pass off and had in fact not done so.

Held by Henchy J dissenting

1. In allowing the appeal and granting the plaintiffs an injunction restraining the defendant from selling or offering for sale sports garments bearing the three stripe arrangement to be found on such garments when manufactured by or for Adidas.

3. The evidence at the trial of the action was sufficient to sustain the plaintiffs claim that the three stripe design had become part of the goodwill of Adidas.

4. The plaintiffs had acquired a recognised and protectible property right which was sufficient to entitle them to a common law trade mark (apart from registration of a trade mark) protectible by a passing off action.

[thejuice]

I see Nike are bringing out a range of GAA county jerseys. Will be interesting to see what they look like

[seafoid]

Do O'neills have any factories in Ireland?

I don't believe the china manufacturing  model is sustainable long term.

http://monthlyreview.org/2012/02/01/the-global-stagnation-and-china

In 2008 Chinese manufacturing workers on average, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, received only 4 percent of the wage compensation of manufacturing workers in the United States. Hence, the added margin of profit to be obtained by producing in China (with the same technology) instead of the United States or other developed countries can be enormous. Chinese workers that assemble iPhones for Foxconn, which subcontracts for Apple, are paid wages that only represent 3.6 percent of the final total manufacturing cost (shipping price), contributing to Apple's huge 64 percent gross profit margin over manufacturing cost on iPhones, according to the Asian Development Bank.37

Work under these conditions, especially if it involves migrant labor, often takes the form of superexploitation, since the payment to workers is below the value of labor power (the costs of reproduction of the worker). The KYE factory in China produces manufactured goods for Microsoft and other U.S. factories, employing up to 1,000 "work-study" students 16–17 years of age, with a typical shift running from 7:45 A.M. to 10:55 P.M. Along with the "students," the factory hires women 18–25 years of age. Workers reported spending ninety-seven hours a week at the factory before the recession, working eighty plus hours. In 2009, given the economic slowdown, the workers were at the factory eighty-three hours a week, and on the production line sixty-eight. Workers race to meet the requirement of producing 2,000 Microsoft mice per shift. The factories are extremely crowded; one workshop, 105 feet by 105 feet, has almost 1,000 toiling workers. They are paid 65 cents an hour, with 52 cents an hour take-home pay, after the cost of abysmal factory food is deducted. Fourteen workers share each dorm room, sleeping on narrow bunk beds. They "shower" by fetching hot water in a small plastic bucket for a sponge bath.38

Similar conditions exist at the Meitai Plastics and Electronics Factory in Dongguan City, Guangdong. There two thousand workers, mostly women, assemble keyboards and computer equipment for Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell. The young workers, mostly under thirty, toil while sitting on hard stools as computer keyboards move down the assembly line, one every 7.2 seconds, 500 an hour. A worker is given just 1.1 seconds to snap each separate key into place, continuing the operation 3,250 times every hour, 35,750 times a day, 250,250 times a week, and more than a million times a month. Employees work twelve hour shifts seven days a week, with two days off a month on average. They are at the factory eighty-one hours a week, while working for seventy-four. They are paid 64 cents an hour base pay, which is reduced to 41 cents after deductions for food and room. Chatting with other workers during work hours can result in the loss of a day and half's pay.

Meitai workers are locked in the factory compound four days of each week and are not allowed to take a walk. The food consists of a thin, watery rice gruel in the morning, while on Fridays they are given a chicken leg and foot as a special treat. Dorm rooms are similar to the KYE factory with bunks lined along the walls and small plastic buckets to haul hot water up several flights of stairs for a sponge bath. They do mandatory unpaid overtime cleaning of the factory and the dorm. If a worker steps on the grass on the way to the dorm she is fined. Workers are regularly cheated out of 14 to 19 percent of the wages due to them. The workers are told that "economizing on capital...is the most basic requirement of factory enterprise."39

The Yuwei Plastics and Hardware Product Company in Dongguan pays its workers eighty cents an hour base pay for fourteen-hour shifts, seven days a week, making auto parts, 80 percent of which are sold to Ford. In peak season, workers are compelled to work thirty days a month. In March 2009 a worker who was required to stamp out 3,600 "RT Tubes" a day, one every twelve seconds, lost three fingers when management ordered the infrared safety monitors turned off so that the workers could work faster. The worker was paid compensation of $7,430, a little under $2,500 a finger.40

What drives the global labor arbitrage and the superexploitation of Chinese labor of course is the search for higher profits, most of which accrue to multinational corporations.