1. IndustriALL Global Union
IndustriALL supply chains initiatives
IndustriALL Global Union
9th ITUC PERC Summer School
28 September, 2016

2. IndustriALL Global Union
Where do we come from?
ICEM
IMF
ITGLWF

3. IndustriALL offices Geneva, SWITZERLAND Moscow, RUSSIA CIS-States
IndustriALL HQ
Moscow, RUSSIA
CIS-States
SINGAPORE
Southeast-Asia and Pacific
New Delhi, INDIA
South Asia
Montevideo, URUGUAY
Latin America and Caribbean
Johannesburg,
SOUTH AFRICA
Sub-Saharan Africa

4. IndustriALL’s strategic goals Every activity has to be in line with these goals
Build Trade Union power
Confront global capital
Defend workers’ rights
Fight precarious work
Ensure sustainable industrial employment

5. Global supply chains Growth WITHOUT accountability
Driven employment growth Global South
Half billion jobs linked with
More than one fifth global workforce
UN Guiding Principles say MNCs responsible working conditions
Massive CSR / social auditing industry
Weak laws, weaker enforcement
Lead firms not take responsibility
Non-living wages, precarious work, rights violations

6. Some key tools for IndustriALL
Building power in supply chains
Global Framework Agreements (GFAs)
Corporate campaigns
Bangladesh Accord
ACT
Not used in isolation, best in fact if come together i.e. GFA can be more effective if have a MNC network, MNC network can be used in corporate campaign, corporate campaign can be run to get a GFA, etc.

7. IndustriALL GFAs Social dialog, CSR with unions
Social dialog, strong unions, CSR with union involvement and using commitments of company to build union power

8. IndustriALL GFAs With 46 companies across our sectors
Aker, AngloGold, BMW, Bosch, Brunel, Daimler, EADS, EDF, Electrolux, Endesa, Enel, Eni, Evonik, Ford, Freudenberg, Gamesa, GDF Suez, GEA, H&M, Indesit, Inditex, Leoni, Lukoil, MAN, Mann + Hummel, Mizuno, Norsk Hydro, Norske Skog, Petrobras, Prym, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Rheinmetall, Röchling, Saab, SCA, Siemens, Solvay, SKF, Statoil, Total, ThyssenKrupp, Umicore, Vallourec, Volkswagen, ZF

9. IndustriALL corporate campaigns
Fighting back and fighting forward

10. Bangladesh Accord
Supply chain responsibility follows Rana Plaza tragedy
April 2013 Rana Plaza collapse killing 1,134 workers, many major brands sourced ready made garments from there

11. Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety
MNC responsibility for safety in garment supply chain
Legally binding agreement
Over 200 garment brands
Union role in governance
Independent inspection program
Public disclosure of inspections, corrective actions
Brands help fund remediation
Factory level H&S committees
Over 1,500 factories inspected
Corrective actions significant though behind schedule

12. ACT MNC responsibility for living wage in garment supply chain
Initiative of garment brands and unions
Aim take wages out of competition in country
Jointly work toward industry-wide collective bargaining in garment producing countries
Supported by brand purchasing practices
Memorandums of Understanding signed but still in development phase

13. NXP case Corporate campaign in supply chain Manufacture semiconductors
Dispute Philippines EPZ 2014
Apple a key customer
Sacked all 24 members of the union exec May 5, 2014 for taking time off on a national holiday. Took place during long, contentious negotiations. We believe an attempt to destroy one of few unions in the EPZ.
Very strong campaign in Philippines. Continue to work but worksite actions, actions in EPZ and actions in other parts of the Philippines.
IA outreach to NXP multiple times over a couple months but no response.

14. NXP case Target customer Apple 150,000 petitions and 14,000 complaints
Social media campaign
Apple Store protests
Quick settlement with major progress

15. Rio Tinto case Corporate campaign in supply chain
Note this using corporate

16. Daimler case GFA in supply chain Organizing successes India, Mexico
Majority of 30 cases raised under the GFA solved
Applies to suppliers
Trainings for suppliers

17. H&M case Supply chain GFA World’s leading garment retailer
1.6 million workers in supply chain
1,900 supplier factories
Signed November 2015
Successes Myanmar, Pakistan December
Myanmar 8 sacked union leaders gained reinstatement and union gained recognition at H&M supplier. Pakistan 88 union activists reinstated.

18. H&M case Supply chain GFA Strong language organizing, living wage
National monitoring committees
Discloses supply chain to unions
Jointly developed training programs