Mind the Gap – A Study on Garment Workers in Bangladesh Clothing brands shall respect human rights including labor rights – wherever the companies operate. Such as, the right to a decent living wage or the right to organize into trade union and bargain collectively. This study investigates about garment workers in Bangladesh and gives insights into the current situation in RMG factories, wages and their development. Mehr Details
Good practice: Promoting social dialogue in garment global supply chains Achieving social dialogue in garment supply chains presents many challenges. Those regions where the downstream parts of the global supply chains are often located may lack both a tradition of social dialogue and the institutions that support it. With limited experience of social dialogue being available, suppliers and workers may not always be fully aware of its benefits, or familiar with the tools used in the process of social dialogue, and it therefore remains little used. This good case practice involves the actions that Fair Wear Foundation, a partner of the Global Deal, is undertaking in order to break through the potential stalemate in negotiations and achieve more social dialogue and better industrial relations in global garment supply chains. Scope: 10 pagesReference: free of charge to Download
The great green washing machine part 2: The Use and Misuse of Sustainability Metrics in Fashion This is the second part of the white paper: The Great Green Washing Machine. The first part ‘Back to The Roots Of Sustainability’ demonstrates that in fashion at the present time, sustainability is not properly defined, and the vital metric - impact on the multidimensionally poor - is not considered. Mehr Details
Governance of Labor Standards in Australian and German Garment Supply Chains: The Impact of Rana Plaza This article analyzes the impact of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse on garment lead firms’ labor standards policies in the light of new governance approaches, especially the pathbreaking Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Based on a sample of 20 Australian and German garment firms, the authors find that firms with low prior baseline standards revised their supply chain and sourcing policies and signed the Accord. Firms with medium and high baseline standards responded variously, from making no changes to revising their policies and signing the Accord. Firm response variation can be explained by stakeholder pressure occurring in different national industrial and institutional contexts following the Rana Plaza incident, which served as a focusing event. Results suggest the anti-applicability of the focusing event framework for industrial relations scholarship and highlight some of the mechanisms driving changes in industrial relations institutions. Mehr Details
Unravel - This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of clothes that come from people and places distinctly strange. With little exposure to Western culture other than the Discovery Channel, the garment recyclers rely on their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs to create an intriguing perspective on the West. Mehr Details
