About the data

Freedom of association and collective bargaining are fundamental labour rights enshrined within international law. When workers are able to freely join independent, democratically elected unions they are able to take collective action to negotiate with their employers for better working conditions, including wages and benefits.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company discloses the number or percentage (%) of supplier facilities that have independent, democratically elected unions.

Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- In Modern Slavery Statement or California Transparency Act disclosure
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Trade Union
- Collective bargaining
- Freedom of Association


Things to watch out for:
- Worker-management or worker participation committees do not count, we are looking for democratically elected trade unions specifically
- Must be in supply chain, information relating to the companies own employees does not count for this question

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