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Book; Cobalt Red
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/cobalt-red-how-blood-congo-powers-our-lives
The technology giants that produce these sleek electronic consumer goods argue that they observe the necessary regulations with respect to local labor practices and environmental protection. In fact, the book astutely shows how lax enforcement by a weak and corrupt Congolese state has allowed shocking abuses in the working conditions and treatment of miners, as well as the degradation of the environment in the region with appalling health consequences for locals. Kara also reveals a system of intermediary agents that connects individual miners to a diffuse array of buyers, depots, concessionaires, processors, and refining industries that all take in a share of the value of the mined cobalt. At the other end of this sequence of actors are the battery producers under contract with the global technology corporations, which can plausibly plead ignorance about the many abuses occurring at the far end of the chain.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/cobalt-red-how-blood-congo-powers-our-lives
The technology giants that produce these sleek electronic consumer goods argue that they observe the necessary regulations with respect to local labor practices and environmental protection. In fact, the book astutely shows how lax enforcement by a weak and corrupt Congolese state has allowed shocking abuses in the working conditions and treatment of miners, as well as the degradation of the environment in the region with appalling health consequences for locals. Kara also reveals a system of intermediary agents that connects individual miners to a diffuse array of buyers, depots, concessionaires, processors, and refining industries that all take in a share of the value of the mined cobalt. At the other end of this sequence of actors are the battery producers under contract with the global technology corporations, which can plausibly plead ignorance about the many abuses occurring at the far end of the chain.
Article; Een handtas van Dior, ‘made in’ een sweatshop in Milaan
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06/23/een-handtas-van-dior-made-in-een-sweatshop-in-milaan-a4857420
High end Italian fashion from Milanese sweatshops
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06/23/een-handtas-van-dior-made-in-een-sweatshop-in-milaan-a4857420
High end Italian fashion from Milanese sweatshops
Fair Labor
https://www.fairlabor.org/
The Fair Labor Association® (FLA) provides training and tools to build expertise in companies and drive innovation in business practices, ultimately improving working conditions and the lives of the workers who make the products you buy. FLA’s wide range of evidence-based, ready-to-implement resources allows us to meet companies where they are on their journey to improving workers’ rights. We provide targeted guidance for companies working to achieve FLA Accreditation and ongoing training for accredited companies. We offer a learning program for Collegiate Licensees, whose University partners are eager to raise labor standards for merchandise bearing their logos. FLA conducts leading-edge research on critical topics such as fair compensation/living wage, supply chain innovation, and forced labor/child labor—ultimately allowing us to provide partners with evidence-based advice and tools to improve labor practices.
https://www.fairlabor.org/
The Fair Labor Association® (FLA) provides training and tools to build expertise in companies and drive innovation in business practices, ultimately improving working conditions and the lives of the workers who make the products you buy. FLA’s wide range of evidence-based, ready-to-implement resources allows us to meet companies where they are on their journey to improving workers’ rights. We provide targeted guidance for companies working to achieve FLA Accreditation and ongoing training for accredited companies. We offer a learning program for Collegiate Licensees, whose University partners are eager to raise labor standards for merchandise bearing their logos. FLA conducts leading-edge research on critical topics such as fair compensation/living wage, supply chain innovation, and forced labor/child labor—ultimately allowing us to provide partners with evidence-based advice and tools to improve labor practices.
Database on reported incidents of abandonment of seafarers
https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersBrowse.Home?p_lang=en
This database contains a regularly updated list of vessels that have been reported to the ILO as abandoned in various ports of the world by appropriate organizations. It specifically includes information on seafarers and fishers, who have been abandoned and their current status.
https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersBrowse.Home?p_lang=en
This database contains a regularly updated list of vessels that have been reported to the ILO as abandoned in various ports of the world by appropriate organizations. It specifically includes information on seafarers and fishers, who have been abandoned and their current status.
United Farm Workers are asking you to open up their supply chain
https://act.seiu.org/a/mushroomtracking
Ostrom Mushroom - where workers have been demanding union recognition - has been sold to a Canadian private equity firm. Given the scale of operations & the serious labor issues, we need YOUR help tracking how the mushroom supply chain moves. Take a picture of mushroom packaging at your local store. Tell us the date, the store and location. Email to ufw@ufw.org
https://act.seiu.org/a/mushroomtracking
Ostrom Mushroom - where workers have been demanding union recognition - has been sold to a Canadian private equity firm. Given the scale of operations & the serious labor issues, we need YOUR help tracking how the mushroom supply chain moves. Take a picture of mushroom packaging at your local store. Tell us the date, the store and location. Email to ufw@ufw.org
Article, Big Brands and the wild west of supply chains
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/how-big-brands-like-tesco-are-drawn-to-wild-west-of-global-supply-chain
Hundreds of factories surround the border city of Mae Sot in the far west of Thailand. It is so close to Myanmar that at times the bombs of the civil war can be heard from its centre. Almost all the garment factories here rely on the flow of cheap Burmese labour fleeing war and economic hardship. Their hard work, willingness to accept pay well below the Thai minimum wage and a lack of legal rights make them an attractive prospect for factories trying to cut costs. And the sale price of what they produce on these tiny wages attracts big brands.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/how-big-brands-like-tesco-are-drawn-to-wild-west-of-global-supply-chain
Hundreds of factories surround the border city of Mae Sot in the far west of Thailand. It is so close to Myanmar that at times the bombs of the civil war can be heard from its centre. Almost all the garment factories here rely on the flow of cheap Burmese labour fleeing war and economic hardship. Their hard work, willingness to accept pay well below the Thai minimum wage and a lack of legal rights make them an attractive prospect for factories trying to cut costs. And the sale price of what they produce on these tiny wages attracts big brands.
Ikea: subcontractors resort to forced labour in Belarus prisons
https://disclose.ngo/en/article/ikea-subcontractors-resort-forced-labour-in-belarus-prisons
Your reminder that SC transparancy is not just needed for countries outside of the West
https://disclose.ngo/en/article/ikea-subcontractors-resort-forced-labour-in-belarus-prisons
Your reminder that SC transparancy is not just needed for countries outside of the West
Article, Cyborg Trucking
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/karen-levy/
In her new book Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, Karen Levy of Cornell University offers an in-depth view of the US long haul trucking industry, explaining why so few workers today are willing to take up what was once considered a respectable, skilled job. Decimated by waves of deregulation and union-busting since the 1970s, a once highly organized and well-paid workforce has fragmented over time, subjected to the intensifying discipline of markets and management.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/karen-levy/
In her new book Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, Karen Levy of Cornell University offers an in-depth view of the US long haul trucking industry, explaining why so few workers today are willing to take up what was once considered a respectable, skilled job. Decimated by waves of deregulation and union-busting since the 1970s, a once highly organized and well-paid workforce has fragmented over time, subjected to the intensifying discipline of markets and management.
Korean auto giant Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/
Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/
Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday.
After Rana Plaza
https://decorrespondent.nl/8193/wat-er-vijf-jaar-na-de-ramp-in-rana-plaza-is-veranderd-in-de-kledingindustrie-in-bangladesh/3300695213574-e2027656
From 2018, good overview on how the Clean Cloths Campaign managed to get most major fashion brands to sign on to bare minimum requirements in their (mostly) Asian supply lines. In Dutch.
https://decorrespondent.nl/8193/wat-er-vijf-jaar-na-de-ramp-in-rana-plaza-is-veranderd-in-de-kledingindustrie-in-bangladesh/3300695213574-e2027656
From 2018, good overview on how the Clean Cloths Campaign managed to get most major fashion brands to sign on to bare minimum requirements in their (mostly) Asian supply lines. In Dutch.
Responsible Supply Chains in Vehicle Parts Industry Case Studies and Challenges
https://www.ilo.org/tokyo/information/publications/WCMS_849050/lang--en/index.htm
The report provides good practices and challenges in line with international instruments including the ILO’s Multinational Enterprises Declaration, by researching responsible supply chains implemented by Japanese enterprises in the automotive component industry in Thailand.
https://www.ilo.org/tokyo/information/publications/WCMS_849050/lang--en/index.htm
The report provides good practices and challenges in line with international instruments including the ILO’s Multinational Enterprises Declaration, by researching responsible supply chains implemented by Japanese enterprises in the automotive component industry in Thailand.
Adidas Annual Report 2020; Supply Chain Conditions
https://report.adidas-group.com/2020/en/group-management-report-our-company/sustainability/supply-chain.html
Our commitment to ensuring fair labor practices and safe working conditions in factories throughout our global supply chain is fundamental to our human rights approach. Our active efforts are guided by the adidas Workplace Standards, our supply chain code of conduct. The standards form a contractual obligation under the manufacturing agreements we sign with our suppliers to ensure workers’ health and safety and environmentally sound factory operations by following ILO and United Nations conventions relating to human rights and employment practices, as well as the model code of conduct of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI).
https://report.adidas-group.com/2020/en/group-management-report-our-company/sustainability/supply-chain.html
Our commitment to ensuring fair labor practices and safe working conditions in factories throughout our global supply chain is fundamental to our human rights approach. Our active efforts are guided by the adidas Workplace Standards, our supply chain code of conduct. The standards form a contractual obligation under the manufacturing agreements we sign with our suppliers to ensure workers’ health and safety and environmentally sound factory operations by following ILO and United Nations conventions relating to human rights and employment practices, as well as the model code of conduct of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI).
Article: Studying Logistics
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/logistics-industry-organizing-labor/
As the economy develops around a sprawling logistics industry, organizing workers in these sectors will be vital.
“Amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics,” US Army General Omar Bradley famously said. Bradley’s declaration was of course an overstatement, but it was also a necessary correction. Logistics — the mobilization of vast resources and, most importantly, people — was the lifeblood of a winning military strategy. Without full and competent logistical support, any strategy, no matter how brilliant, will fail. It is a point worth remembering when discussing the importance of the logistics industry to the US economy. By Joe Allen.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/logistics-industry-organizing-labor/
As the economy develops around a sprawling logistics industry, organizing workers in these sectors will be vital.
“Amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics,” US Army General Omar Bradley famously said. Bradley’s declaration was of course an overstatement, but it was also a necessary correction. Logistics — the mobilization of vast resources and, most importantly, people — was the lifeblood of a winning military strategy. Without full and competent logistical support, any strategy, no matter how brilliant, will fail. It is a point worth remembering when discussing the importance of the logistics industry to the US economy. By Joe Allen.