New transparency regulations in some places theoretically require companies to report on forced labour in their supply chains, but a new review finds that's not what's happening.
At this year's International Labour Conference, BTS interviewed US labour leader Cathy Feingold.
Supply chains without international cooperation will never work, but an international average minimum wage backed up by enforcement mechanisms and the correct incentives could help produce a just global economy.
If the conversation at the ILO's ‘high level panel discussion on child labour’ had lived up to its name the world might have started to make progress on this important issue. Español
This year’s International Labour Conference could represent a turning point in the struggle to regulate global supply chains.
A commonly overlooked but very simple mechanism for promoting decent work in global supply chains is to improve the recovery of unpaid wages.
Governments, business leaders and labour unions are gathering to discuss decent work in global supply chains. We interview Sussex Lecturer Benjamin Selwyn about why this is so important. Español
Week one of #ILC2016 has finished with workers and employers divided. What are the prospects for the all-important week two and any potential convention on decent work in supply chains?
Apple is among the world’s largest companies and has a supply chain to match, but does its claim to be strict on supplier labour standards hold water?
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, both vital nodes in the textile industry's supply chain, compel citizens to pick cotton, prevent worker organisation, and suppress critics. Could the ILC 2016 change that?
Decades of voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives have failed to deliver living wages, safe factories, or effective protections for workers’ rights to organise and bargain collectively.
This International Labour Conference opens an overdue discussion on work in supply chains. If we want to go beyond the minimum of decent work, we must ask the biggest questions.
