Unions and employers from the Spanish textile, the Fedecon, constituted a work group with the consumers associations and the NGOs in order to promote social responsibility in the sector. The Setem and Intermon-Oxfam NGOs, very involved in the diffusion of fair trade, have been denouncing for several years the absence of control and guarantee of the workers' rights throughout the production line. (Ref. 070180)
The newly constituted work group chose as its mission to train and advise the sector’s companies in order to imbed and develop CSR systems. It intends to define working standards through a good practices’ code on the one hand, and to establish procedures to check fabrication conditions on the other hand, to provide the consumer with information on the product’s traceability.
A call for help from public authorities to act upon companies – foreign and Spanish. The group is considering to ask the
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