On 13 November, at the ILO's head offices in Geneva, Inditex Executive Chairman, Pablo Isla, and the general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, Valter Sanches, signed the agreement extending the 2007 Global Framework Agreement (GFA), which sets out monitoring mechanisms to ensure the Spanish textile group’s suppliers uphold international norms and which establishes a Global Union Committee, on which worker representatives from each of the Inditex Group's key production cluster areas will sit, and that will aim to share and foster best practices across the industry.
This GFA confirms and deepens the shared commitments undertaken by both signatory parties when the first GFA was concluded (c.f. article No. 070824) back in 2007 and then renewed in 2014, including those seeking to ensure workers rights are respected all along the production chain and consolidating the involvement of trade unions and their role as counterparty (c.f. article No. 120302).
Fundamental principles. The new GFA sets out the terms and conditions that will apply across all of the Inditex production chain. Inditex has committed to applying the GFA in all workplaces including those where there are no IndustriALL Global affiliated union representatives.
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