Filctem-CGIL in Florence has launched a campaign on the social networks calling for transparency in fashion’s supply chains. Workers in the industry are bringing home the reality of the threatened extinction of their traditional skills and know-how. The union wants the whole industry to support provisions on traceability for working conditions in the manufacture of clothes, footwear and accessories. The goal is to make the public aware of the fact that the impact of the violation of peoples’ fundamental labor rights during the manufacture of goods in one part of the world is also being felt in another part of the world through the loss of jobs and skills.
Filctem Florence has appealed for traceability principles to apply in the fashion industry, without which, the organization affirms, the manufacture of clothing, footwear, bags, belts, wallets, and other accessories will potentially destroy large parts of Italy’s heritage of skills and know-how that characterizes its fashion industry. The union recalls that the industry is built on a tradition of small artisan companies, deeply rooted in the country’s regions, such as for example, leather goods
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