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The ITGLWF’s policy on cross-border dialogue – Miller brand owners that are headquartered in major buyer blocs (United States [US], European Union and Japan) and wielding considerable commercial and potential political control over social relations in the factories within their supply chains — the ITGLWF has long recognized the strategic importance of being a signatory to agreements with MNCs. However, a main objective in negotiating such enabling instruments is their use in promoting core employment standards, in particular the ILO instruments Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98). Such agreements could then be used as a means for securing the resolution of trade union recognition disputes in an MNC’s supply chain, wherever these occur. In this respect, the policy of the ITGLWF as laid out in box 7.1 is no different from that of global union federations in other sectors (see Müller and Rüb, 2005). However, the particular trajectory that the ITGLWF has pursued in its efforts to secure agreements, and the difficulties that it has encountered in this process, have to be viewed against the backdrop of a globally outsourced manufacturing base (Miller, 2004). MNCs in the TCF sector are positioned at various points along a global value chain and within a series of interconnected networks. Gereffi (2001) has usefully represented these networks graphically from a US perspective. This is reproduced in figure 7.1. This graphic merits a few observations. First, looking horizontally along the chain, the TCF transects several industries/sectors and therefore the jurisdictions of several global unions. Raw material networks in both textile and footwear industries embrace the chemical and agricultural sector, and buyer and retail networks are clearly rooted in trading activities. From a jurisdictional viewpoint, this means that at least four other global union federations, in addition to the ITGWLF, have a potential interest, namely, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Association (IUF) in, for example, cotton manufacture; the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) in synthetic fibres, among other products; Union Network International (UNI) in areas such as retailing; and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), if one includes the logistics of TCF products. Such an observation might appear irrelevant were it not for the fact that increasing reference is made to the concept of “organizing along 165
Cross-border social dialogue and agreements Figure 7.1. The apparel commodity chain TEXTILE COMPANIES APPAREL MANUFACTURERS RETAILS OUTLETS North America All Retail Outlets Natural Fibers Cotton, Wool, Silk, etc. Yarn (Spinning) Fabric (weming, knitting, U.S. Garment Factories (designing, cutting, sewing, buttenholing Brand-Named Apparel Companies Department Stores finishing) Specialty Stores Domestic and Mexican Caribbean Basin Subcontracters Mass Merchandise Chains Asia Synthetic Fibers Oil, Natural Gas Petrochemicals Synthetic Fibers Asia Garment Contractors Overseas Buying Offices Discount Chains Domestic and Overseas Subcontractors Trading Companies All Retail Outlets Off-Prices Factory Outlet, Mail order, Other RAW MATERIAL NETWORKS COMPONENT NETWORKS PRODUCTION NETWORKS EXPORT NETWORKS MARKETING NETWORKS Source: Gereffi (2001). 166
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Introduction Konstantinos Papadakis
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