The petition says the EC decision will directly affect the daily lives of nearly one million workers in the leather shoe sector and supporting industries.

The petition comes from a report studying the impacts of the EC’s anti-dumping lawsuit on Vietnam’s leather footwear industry, which was conducted by AVV in collaboration with the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) in May 2006.

Along with the petition, a letter signed by more than 2,000 workers will be submitted to the hearings on the shoe dumping lawsuit in Brussels.