Union-busting is more than just a bad look for a brand — it’s a breach of workers’ rights.
Under the International Labour Organization’s core protections, collective bargaining and the right to form or join a union is protected under law. The Resource Center surveyed 124 union activists in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka on a number of prevailing issues in the workplace. The survey collection timeline was from June 2022 to July 2022. Some 61 percent of respondents said collective bargaining agreements have gotten worse, as did myriad other ESG-billed issues.
“Straight after COVID-19 we are now in an economic crisis; we don’t even have electricity during blackouts and inflation for food is over 50 percent,” Anton Marcus, joint secretary of the Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union in Sri Lanka, noted in the report. “The workers are struggling to survive, they don’t have time to engage with trade union activities. When we call training programs and meetings, attendance is very poor.
“[The supervisors] throw bundles of clothes at us, every day at one or two people at least. When it hits us in the face, it really hurts. They pull and push us, hold our hands tightly and drag us from the machine across the factory floor and push us to the side,” she said. “We see that brands undertake initiatives along their supply chains often — let’s say gender or modern slavery. Part of the solution is for brands and governments and other stakeholders to take freedom of association seriously. If you don’t respect it, you see a backslide in these issues,” she said. “It’s a solution for brands to champion freedom of association and have brave, bold conversations on the benefits….
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