“You’re colluding with an authoritarian regime or with repressive police institutions if you’re not taking the proactive step of clearly enforcing rules with your suppliers as a brand,” said Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau.
Corroborating Roselyn’s position, another participant, Vanessa Edebru from the Solidarity Centre and Gender Specialist, said over 80 percent of the workforce faces one form of violence or harassment at their places of work.
She said, “This C190 report analysis meeting was designed for relevant stakeholders in the trade unions to sit and discuss strategies, identify relevant stakeholders to engage the C190 that it may be implemented in Nigeria.”
Some have speculated Mexico could provide jobs that would ease the number of migrants coming into the United States from Central and South America. But that’s not happened, said Joell Molina, Americas regional program director with the Solidarity Center, a workers’ rights group based in Washington, D.C.
“Right now there’s no incentive whatsoever for any of these migrants to stop and settle down in Mexico, because the conditions are not that different from where they’re leaving,” Molina said.
“There is common ground in recognizing that the [rapid response] mechanism has had a positive impact,” said Paolo Marinaro, Solidarity Center Mexico Country Program Director. “Thanks to the legitimation processes, (workers) have been able to remove themselves from the control of employer protection unions, by using the tool of the mechanism to guarantee an even floor.”
“To the extent that Western brands have pulled out unquestionably this has given carte blanche to factories to drive down labor conditions and increase violations of Burmese labor law and trade union rights,” said Dave Welsh, Myanmar country director of labor rights group Solidarity Center.
“Food and goods delivery digital platform work is already some of the most precarious, underpaid employment in Brazil,” Gonzalo Martinez de Vedia, Brazil program director at labor rights organization Solidarity Center, told Rest of World. “Any new fee that subtracts from wages in that equation throws the sector further into substandard conditions.”
