According to the international trade union federation representing textile, garment and leather workers (ITGLWF), "Nike's CSR report is announcing a new role for social audit". In this report, the company commits to establish a program aiming at guaranteeing freedom of association and at favouring dialogue between union organizations and the management. For the union federation, this new stand attests of the awareness that "the antidote against workers' exploitation is found in industrial relations" and opens the way for a new generation of codes of conduct. (Ref. 070529)
For Neil Kearney, secretary general of the textile union federation, this report announces the end of “codes of conduct from the first series”, which were based “on the method of working conditions’ social audit and whose impact was limited”. He added that multinational companies from the supplying and retailing sectors finally recognize that “the antidote against workers’ exploitation can be found in professional relations, where every employer takes on a direct responsibility for the people t
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