This metric is part of a Clean Clothes Campaign project to investigate wages in apparel supply chains. The project, Filling the Gap: Achieving Living Wages through improved transparency, is funded by the European Commission and comprises research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy around an innovative Transparency Tool.
The Transparency Tool enables users to see at a glance which fashion brands and retailers have the largest gaps between their public commitments on wages, what workers are actually paid, and what they should be paid to be earning a Living Wage in their regional context.
The aim of the project is to empower workers and workers’ organisations to advocate for their rights and equip consumers with the knowledge/evidence that will enable them to make responsible and sustainable shopping decisions, and to hold brands accountable. The resulting increased transparency and traceability, along with the empowerment of workers, trade unions and CSOs, will lead to concrete improvements in these global supply chains.
The research was split into two parts: a survey of the brands and an on-the-ground survey of factory workers, initially in China, Indonesia, Croatia, India and Sri Lanka. This metric is derived from the brand survey portion of the research.
This metric is asking whether the company publicly reports information on unions and collective bargaining agreements in their supplier operations. Start by searching on the company’s website and within their published documents such as policy documents, annual reports and sustainability reports.
Keywords and Search Terms
- Collective bargaining
- Unionization
- Union
- Supply chain
Answer Input
Always include the page number where you found the answer in the Comments field, as well as excerpts from the source where you found the information.
If the company publicly reports on unionization and worker representatives in its supplier factories, enter the answer as 'Yes'.
If the company reports publicly some information on the number of supplier facilities with democratically elected unions or those covered by collective bargaining agreements, enter the answer as 'Partial'.
If the company does not publicly report on unionization of workers nor on existing collective bargaining agreements in its supplier factories, enter the answer as 'No'.
Please note: 'Unknown' is not a possible answer for this metric.