Amazon : arrêtez de resquiller à propos de la sécurité des travailleurs, signez l’Accord dès aujourd’hui !25 April, 2024IndustriALL Global Union et Uni Global Union appellent Amazon à signer l’Accord international sur la santé et la sécurité dans l’industrie du textile et de la confection.
Amazon: Stop free-riding on worker safety, sign the Accord today!25 April, 2024IndustriALL Global Union and Uni Global Union are calling on Amazon to sign the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry.
Aniversario del Rana Plaza: ¡los eurodiputados deben apoyar la diligencia debida!23 April, 2024Hoy se conmemora el aniversario del homicidio industrial de 2013 que dejó más de 1100 personas fallecidas y otras miles de heridas, cuando el edificio Rana Plaza se derrumbó sobre trabajadores y trabajadoras de la confección en Daca, Bangladesh. Este año, el aniversario coincide con la votación final en el Parlamento Europeo de la Directiva de Diligencia Debida en Materia de Sostenibilidad Empresarial (CSDDD). De adoptarse, esta norma haría obligatorio el respeto de las normas ambientales y los derechos humanos, incluidos los laborales, a lo largo de las cadenas de valor globales.
Rana Plaza anniversary: MEPs must support due diligence today!23 April, 2024Today, marks the anniversary of the 2013 industrial homicide that killed more than 1,100 people and injured thousands more, as the Rana Plaza collapsed onto garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This year, the anniversary coincides with the final vote in the European Parliament on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which, if adopted, would make the respect of environmental standards, human rights including workers’ rights mandatory along global value chains.
Shipping companies’ lifeline to Myanmar junta demonstrates disdain for human rights22 April, 2024Unions slam shipping giants for sustaining regime, including Maersk’s hollow claim of performing ‘heightened human rights due diligence’.
Promoting social dialogue and industrial relations in Moroccan TGSL sector5 April, 2024On 2 March in continuation of the joint work program, a national meeting was held in Casablanca to develop social dialogue and industrial relations in the textile, clothing, and footwear sector in Morocco. The meeting was held with representatives of IndustriALL, national contact point of OECD, the ministry of industry and trade, employers and textile unions from both the Moroccan Labor Confederation and the Democratic Confederation of Labor.
Nigerian textile union conference focuses on industry revival4 April, 2024The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), an IndustriALL affiliate, held its 13th National Delegates Conference under the theme: building union power for sustainable industrialization and the future of work. The conference took place in Abuja, Nigeria from 25-27 March.
Acuerdos vinculantes: reforzar la seguridad de los trabajadores y reducir el riesgo21 March, 2024Ante el creciente reconocimiento de que el autocontrol voluntario de las fábricas por parte de las empresas es un mecanismo ineficaz, aumenta el interés en los acuerdos vinculantes entre las multinacionales y los sindicatos como un medio más confiable para lograr una verdadera diligencia debida en materia de derechos humanos en las cadenas de suministro. El 14 de marzo, IndustriALL coorganizó, junto con la Contraloría de la Ciudad de Nueva York, la tercera de una serie de mesas redondas de inversores sobre el tema.
Binding agreements: building worker safety and reducing risk21 March, 2024With increasing recognition that voluntary, corporate self-monitoring of factories is a failed mechanism comes growing interest in binding agreements between global companies and trade unions as a more reliable route to effective human rights due diligence in supply chains. On 14 March, IndustriALL co-organized, with the New York City Comptroller’s Office, the third in a series of investor roundtables on the subject.
Победа профсоюза в Шри-Ланке5 March, 2024Входящий в IndustriALL Профсоюз работников свободных торговых зон и общего обслуживания (FTZ&GSEU) одержал победу в борьбе за восстановление на работе 18 рабочих и признание местного отделения профсоюза на трикотажной фабрике Texlan в Шри-Ланке.
