Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) , Human Rights Watch, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), International Labour Rights Forum ( ILRF), Maquila Solidarity Network, Worker Rights Consortium, IndustriALL, ITUC CSI IGB, UNI
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Firmenbefragung, Lieferkette, Textilindustrie, Transparenz
Kurzbeschreibung:
The garment and footwear industry stretches around the world. Clothes and shoes sold in stores in the US, Canada, Europe, and other parts of the world typically travel across the globe. They are cut and stitched in factories in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or other regions. Factory workers in Bangladesh or Romania could have made clothes only weeks agthat consumers elsewhere are eagerly picking up. When global supply chains are opaque, consumers often lack meaningful information about where their apparel was made. A T-shirt label might say “Made in China,” but in which of the country’s thousands of factories was this garment made? And under what conditions for workers? There is a growing trend of global apparel companies adopting supply chain transparency—starting with publishing the names, addresses, and other important information about factories manufacturing their branded products. Such transparency is a powerful tool for promoting corporate accountability for garment workers’ rights in global supply chains. Transparency can ensure identification of global apparel companies whose branded products are made in factories where bosses abuse workers’ rights. Garment workers, unions, and nongovernmental organizations can call on these apparel companies ttake steps tensure that abuses stop and workers get remedies. This report takes stock of supply chain transparency in the garment industry four years after the industry disasters in Bangladesh and Pakistan that shook the global garment industry. Tbuild momentum toward supply chain transparency and develop industry minimum standards, a coalition of labor and human rights groups asked 72 companies tagree timplement a simple Transparency Pledge. It alsasked that companies declining tcommit tthe Pledge provide reasons for choosing not tdso. Where companies engaged with the coalition, the coalition alssought additional information about their existing transparency practices. This report explains the logic and the urgency behind the Pledge and describes the responses we received from the companies contacted.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Umfang: 20 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Medien: Hintergrundinformationen
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