Fair Labor Association's president, Auret van Heerden, answers the following questions about workers rights: How can globalized industries keep their workers safe and protected? and how can companies keep their global supply chains honest?
Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
The FLA works to bring together companies,
NGOs and universities to develop and keep up international labor
standards in global supply chains.
"Founded in 1999, the FLA grew
out of a task force convened by President Clinton to investigate and end
child labor and other sweatshop practices. Difficult enough in the US,
protecting labor is even more complex in the global economy, with its
multiple sets of laws and layers of contractors and outsourcers.
Policing the entire chain is impossible, so the FLA works instead to
help all parties agree that protecting workers is the best way to do
business, and agree on voluntary initiatives to get there."
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