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31 mai 2007

Nike vows crackdown on overtime

BBC Nike has pledged to crack down on the amount of overtime done at factories it uses worldwide as part of efforts to improve working conditions. The sportswear firm will seek to abolish "excessive" overtime at its 700 contract factories by 2011...The...
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31 mai 2007

Nike to promote workers’ rights

Author: Jonathan Birchall, FT Nike...is to strengthen efforts to combat potential abuses of the 800,000 workers in its global supply chain with a push to promote labour rights, including the freedoms to form and join trades unions. The company says it...
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25 mai 2007

Nike to resume football production in Pakistan

Author: Jonathan Birchall, Financial Times Nike, the official supplier of soccer balls to the English Premier Football League, is to resume making hand-stitched leather balls in Pakistan, six months after it stopped production there amid child-labour...
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24 mai 2007

Business Linkages: Lessons, opportunities, and challenges

a publication by IBLF, Harvard University and the International Finance Corporation IBLF_BusinessLinkages0705 With support from Business Action for Africa and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands For large firms, globalization has generated...
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23 mai 2007

Banana firm 'exploits migrants'

Banana firm 'exploits migrants'
Pratt's Bananas supplies fruit to leading supermarkets A leading supplier of fair trade fruit has been accused of exploiting Eastern European migrant workers in the UK. Workers at Pratt's Bananas in Luton, Beds, say they have to work excessive hours,...
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22 mai 2007

Textiles pair do their bit for Mideast peace

Financial Times Two noble goals - the promotion of Middle East peace and the ethical production of sweatshop- free clothing - are being combined in a project launched by a Jewish American businessman and his Palestinian supplier in the West Bank. Adam...
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21 mai 2007

Nike to promote workers’ rights

FT By Jonathan Birchall in New York Nike , the world’s largest sports shoe and clothing brand, is to strengthen efforts to combat potential abuses of the 800,000 workers in its global supply chain with a push to promote labour rights, including the freedoms...
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14 mai 2007

Investor forces ethics on to Tesco agenda

The Guardian , Julia Finch, City editor A small shareholder has amassed enough support to force the issue of ethical trading with suppliers onto the agenda at Tesco's annual shareholders' meeting. Ben Birnberg, a retired solicitor, wants to force the...
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10 mai 2007

Reporting initiative targets small suppliers

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and German development agency GTZ have launched a project to help small suppliers improve their sustainability reporting. Established in 1997, the GRI was co-founded by US ethical investment body CERES and UNEP, to...
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