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ACCOUNTABILITY

Holding corporations accountable for their supply chains.

Governments, employers and investors are accountable for the safety, pay and conditions of all workers involved in moving their goods and passengers. Whether workers are directly employed, subcontracted or informal – they must have decent work, fundamental labour rights and genuine social protections.

OUR POSITION

Across the world, governments have allowed businesses to compete unchecked. As businesses have sought cheaper ways to move people and goods, governments have ripped up labour safeguards to encourage and increase competition. This has eroded labour standards across the transport industry. We are building transport workers’ collective power across supply chains to hold governments and companies accountable for decent labour standards.

KEY ISSUES

  • SETTING GLOBAL STANDARDS
  • ENFORCING NEW RULES
  • SUPPLY CHAIN ORGANISING

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HOW DO WE END CORPORATE GREED IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS?
EXPOSING HIDDEN WORKERS IN SUPPLY CHAINS

We put a spotlight on the conditions of transport workers in global supply chains to ensure that governments and employers are accountable for all transport workers. Where governments and employers refuse to act, we campaign against those who fail to put a stop to exploitation.

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The Pandemic in Road Transport

The pandemic in road transport, a joint VNB-ITF-IUF film and investigation that highlights how companies are exploiting Covid-19 to further cut transport prices, pay, conditions and health and safety
" 80% of people want their government to end abuse of transport workers in supply chains."


REWRITING THE RULES OF SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPORT

We must rewrite supply chain rules through international laws and regulations, national and local legislation and industrial agreements. Transport unions are playing a critical role in setting, checking and enforcing these standards.

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ITF Supply Chain Principles

The ITF’s Supply Chain Principles set out how governments, investors and especially multinational enterprises and customers of transport supply chains (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘supply
"81% of people support laws that hold companies to account for rights abuses in their supply chains."
ORGANISING WORKERS TO MONITOR STANDARDS

Transport unions are the most effective means of checking and reporting standards, and conducting human rights due diligence. Working with governments and employers, the ITF and its affiliates manage networks of hundreds of inspectors and monitors across supply chain transport.

"44% of people think transport companies don’t behave in an ethical and fair way."
CREATING A BETTER FUTURE FOR WORKERS
ON THE GROUND
On the ground