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Cross-border social dialogue and agreements<br />

European Court recognition of a fundamental right<br />

to collective action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

<strong>An</strong> “anti-social dumping principle” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

Part 4 Varieties of dialogue and regulation at cross-border level 159<br />

Chapter 7 The ITGLWF’s policy on cross-border dialogue<br />

in the textiles, clothing and footwear sector:<br />

Emerging strategies in a sector ruled by codes<br />

of conduct and resistant companies . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

Doug Miller<br />

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

Textiles, clothing and footwear: Figures and misperceptions . . . . 163<br />

Targeting multinational companies for cross-border dialogue<br />

in textiles, clothing and footwear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

Why no IFA? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174<br />

The disclosure debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176<br />

Codes of conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177<br />

ITGLWF involvement in multi-stakeholder initiatives . . . . . 178<br />

Union avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180<br />

Breakthrough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183<br />

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185<br />

Chapter 8 The ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006:<br />

A new paradigm for global labour rights implementation 191<br />

Nathan Lillie<br />

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />

Significance of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 . . . . 194<br />

Maritime industry regulatory structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197<br />

Flag States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />

Port State Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199<br />

Labour supply States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200<br />

Labour market competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201<br />

Maritime Labour Convention contents and functioning . . . . . . . 204<br />

ILO as an institutional setting for labour standards negotiations . . 205<br />

Actors and interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208<br />

Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215<br />

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