A month back, the International Labor Organisation (ILO) announced a milestone agreement on living wages, raising hopes for millions of workers around the world that decent wages could become a reality. Today most leading companies across sectors are either contemplating or committing to pay living wages to workers in their supply chains. At a time […]
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Living Wages for banana workers: when will workers see the difference?
In March 2024, Wilbert Flinterman, Senior Advisor of Workers’ Rights and Trade Union Relations at GLWC Leading Member organization Fairtrade International attended the 4th Global Conference of the World Banana Forum that took place at the FAO in Rome. I believe that after so many years, also thanks to the work of the Anker Research […]
Von Pia Schulz / Fashion United
Why is it so difficult to introduce living wages?
April 26, 2024
Augustus Bambridge-Sutton / Food Navigator
A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work? Banana workers could earn living wage
February 14, 2024
John Emont
Big Fashion Still Hasn’t Figured Out How to Pay a Living Wage
January 3, 2024
Anca Voinea
Fairtrade International announces measures to increase banana plantation wages
October 2, 2023
Fresh Plaza
Ecuador to formalise official living wage compliance certificate for banana sector
June 6, 2023
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View: Why it’s high time for India to adopt ‘living wage’
April 24, 2023
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GLWC: Transforming knowledge into action to achieve living wages
The GLWC is a unique knowledge-action partnership working to enable collaborative action to achieve a decent standard of living for working people and their families worldwide. The Coalition sees research, practice-based learning, and collaborative action as essential for achieving this ambition. As a knowledge-action partnership, the GLWC believes that research on living wages and action […]
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