»Argument for main reasons for decent work deficits: - Inefficient labor administration and inspection - corruption - lack of implementation of ILO standards at the national level MNEs …
Unit 7, Lecture 5 - From Voluntary Responsibility to Responsible Governance
»There are a lack of binding instruments in the international legal framework to make respect of worker / human rights obligatory and not just voluntary. IN 2014, the Governments of Ecuador a…
Unit 7, Lecture 4 - A Binding Treaty on TNCs
»International treaties (i.e. ILO conventions) are only binding for states, which ratified the respective conventions, not for companies. A principle of international law says that only states…
Unit 7, Lecture 3 - Legal approaches to hold transnational corporations accountable
»The role of the state is to enact either through legislation or through promotion of good practices, compliance with the international labor standards Still trying to make legal obligation a…
Unit 7, Lecture 2 - Addressing the decent work gaps
»Power relations between capital and labor have become more unequal due to the increase in global supply chains. Despite many initiatives decent work deficits and governance gaps continue to ex…
Unit 7, Lecture 1 - Promoting ILS in Global Supply Chains: the way forward
»Co-determination is a set of rights that allows workers and their representatives to influence management decisions at the company level. In Germany 2 levels of co-determination: - establi…
Unit 6, Lecture 5 - Bridging the Gap – International Solidarity
»Individual brand efforts and individual factory efforts were not leading to living wages – need to bring all of the industry together. Creation of sectoral bargaining in order to provide a me…
Unit 6, Lecture 4 - Supply Chain Bargaining, the example of the ACT Initiative
»A necessary though not sufficient precondition for sustainable wage growth is productivity growth. Unregulated competition will trigger a race to the bottom wherein higher profits or lower pro…
Unit 6, Lecture 3 - Towards a living wage triangular industry-wide bargaining
»Most important factor affecting workers is the growth and geographic dispersion of global supply chains controlled by MNEs. Power interests in global supply chains are not only looking for low…
Unit 6, Lecture 2 - Worker Strategies in a Global Economy
»GFAs are a policy instrument of trade unions in particular of the global union federation’s, the worldwide representative organizations of sectoral unions. Global unions developed this policy…