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14 Dez 2022

Autor:
Worker Rights Consortium

Pakistan: Unions & labour rights organisations celebrate expansion of the International Accord to Pakistan, following decade-long push for garment factory safety

"Labor rights organizations hail advent of the Pakistan Accord", 14 December 2022

  • The Pakistan Accord, a legally enforceable health and safety agreement between unions and fashion brands announced today, will provide vital new protections for Pakistan’s garment and textile workers. 
  • The new agreement is modelled on the Bangladesh Accord...The Accord transformed the Bangladesh garment industry: more than 1,600 factories employing 2.5 million workers made critical safety renovations, saving countless lives...
  • The Pakistan Accord provides unique mechanisms of accountability. The agreement:
    o is legally binding on brands;
    o after comprehensive health and safety inspections to uncover hazards, mandates time-bound renovation plans to eliminate those hazards;
    o ensures suppliers have the resources to pay for renovations;
    o will protect all workers throughout the brands’ supply chain;
    o provides workers a confidential avenue to surface urgent safety and health concerns and secure swift corrective action; and
    o documents its performance through extraordinary public transparency.
  • The International Accord has 187 brand signatories, at least half of which are sourcing from Pakistan, positioning hundreds of factories and fabric mills to fall under the agreement once brands sign on...

Nasir Mansoor, General Secretary of the National Trade Union Federation Pakistan, said: “After years of fighting for the expansion of the Accord to Pakistan, our workers can finally be brought under its monitoring and complaint mechanisms. If enough brands sign, workers will not have to fear for their lives when going to work and will know who to appeal to when their factory is unsafe. The strength of the Accord is in the fact that unions have equal power to corporations in its decision-making.” 

Zehra Khan, General Secretary of the Home-Based Women Workers’ Federation, said: “The Accord program will bring inspections, safety trainings, and a complaint mechanism covering all health and safety issues, including gender-based violence, to workers in Pakistan producing for signatory brands. Particular attention will be needed to ensure that women workers, who are often not officially registered and might be working from home, have the same access to this program as other workers.”...

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