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STATEMENT BY THE ALLIANCE FOR BANGLADESH WORKER SAFETY ON THE RELEASE OF FACTORY LISTS
Parveen Kalia
Social / Environmental Compliance / CSR Professional
Today, supplier information for the more than 620 factories and an estimated 1.1 million workers represented by The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety is being publicly released. The list contains notation of factories also manufacturing goods for members of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety. Shared suppliers make up approximately 50% of the Alliance factory list, further highlighting the need for combined efforts on behalf of garment industry workers. By releasing this information, the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety hopes to be taking yet another step towards partnership on coordinated trainings, inspections and remedial support. Achieving this will require concerted and sustained efforts to work with government, the International Labor Organization (ILO), industry, workers, factory management and civil society. In accordance with the Alliance Member’s Agreement, the full list of factories was shared with the Fair Factories Clearinghouse in September. The list represents input from the majority of Alliance members. The Alliance recognizes that this factory list is a work in progress, and will be working to validate and update details over the coming months as new members complete their internal processes for sharing factory information.
http://www.bangladeshworkersafety.org/wp-content/uploads/Alliance%20Factory%20Profile.pdf
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Peter Burgess
Peter Burgess
Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics
Parveen ... thank you for sharing this information. It is an important step towards the goal of improving working conditions and safety in the textile factories in Bangladesh.
I would be very interested to hear people's views on what are the next steps that need to happen in order for the Bangladeshi factory owners to step up and materially improve the working conditions and safety in their factories.
What needs to be done to ensure that international companies are held to account by their customers when they source their products from factories that are ignoring workplace safety.
The history of supply chain management in the textile industry is that there has been a 'race to the bottom' which has been profitable for factory owners, logistical services, importers, wholesalers and retailers but at the expense of labor. Everyone except labor has been doing well ... including, arguably, customers.
Getting the information included in this list represents a lot of work. How can it be used to ensure that workplace conditions and safety are improved for labor?
Peter Burgess - TrueValueMetrics
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