Buenos días,
Por si no tod@s lo recibís, os reenvío actualizaciones internas de la red global CCC (abajo)
Destaco 3 temas:
Plan Operativo Anual CCC 2024:
Tuvo lugar vía webinar el 7 de Diciembre (email que envié en Noviembre). Finalmente se grabó.
Es un enlace interno con contraseña que copio aquí: https://nextcloud.pangea.org/index.php/s/Laa24AF2tR9rPjk
@Roberta, confírmame cuando puedas que no tienes problemas para acceder.
Moda aérea:
Public Eye ha publicado otro artículo sobre el uso del transporte aéreo poniendo el foco ahora en otras marcas (H&M, Primark, Bestseller, Fast Retailing, Lululemon, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Victoria’s Secret, Calzedonia) y la divulgación de información al respecto de estas. https://www.publiceye.ch/en/news/detail/following-in-zaras-slipstream-the-airborne-fashion-of-other-brands
Legislación UE:
El lunes pasado publicamos esta nota en la web como seguimiento del anuncio del acuerdo entre el Consejo de la UE y el Parlamento Europeo. También recogido en esta última actualización de la CCC
Hay muchos enlaces a temas interesantes, si hay alguno que os interese más y no pudieseis acceder, decídmelo please.
Buen día,
Eva
De: Clean Clothes Campaign [mailto:info@cleanclothes.org]
Enviado el: lunes, 18 de diciembre de 2023 17:05
Para: Federacíon Setem
Asunto: CCC Updates #25 - Message from our Board & Season's Greetings
CCC Updates #25 2023
18th of December
Dear friends,
CCC Updates are sent out (bi-weekly) on Mondays. Please continue to send anything you would like to share with the network to ccc-updates@cleanclothes.org.
Would you like to access our social media materials to promote our campaigns? We invite you to see our social media toolkit master doc or the current campaigns space on insite.
If you have any highlights, news, top stories or updates that you'd like featured at the top of the CCC Updates for extra visibility, please send them to ccc-updates@cleanclothes.org.
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Happy Holidays!
Thank you for your tireless dedication to our Network and to the empowerment of workers. Your efforts have made a real impact, creating positive change and amplifying the voices of those we serve. We acknowledge and appreciate your hard work and collaboration as the year comes to an end. Wishing you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and a New Year filled with continued success. Thank you for being an integral part of our network.
Message from our Board regarding Palestine
On November 6th an invitation was shared via the CCC Updates for entities to sign a statement in solidarity of garment workers in Palestine. Strong concerns were raised by CCC Germany related to the wording of the statement and the risks and potential negative repercussions for the CCC German National Coalition and its members, that could be the result of CCC global network engagement with the statement. Following this, in its meeting of December 7th, the Strategy Board discussed the matter and discussed how we might or could not go forward as a CCC Global Network. Please find more detailed explanations and the outcome of this discussion here.
Labour behind the Label also offered to organize an online meeting for CCC members to discuss the actions and commitments outlined in the statement and how our respective organisations can fulfil them. Until the Network consultation process conducted by the Strategy Board is completed this will be at individual level, and with a request to bear in mind the associated risks that public involvement from entities or Coordinating Bodies with “Clean Clothes Campaign” in their name may bring to the German CCC. The meeting will be online, on December 21st, Thursday, 11am UK time. For more information and to participate contact Alena alena@labourbehindthelabel.org or Maya maya@labourbehindthelabel.org.
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence highlights
- On November 27th, Women's Center Sri Lanka rallied at Colombo Fort Railway Station, a symbol of change, to mark the International Day on eliminating all sorts of violence against Women. Watch their video commemorating the event.
- READ has initiated the women workers' union, Garment and General Workers Union, GAGU. This union is now forming at the community- and garment industry levels. During this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, GAGU leaders and women members raised their demands, with paintings in palms, to insist on “Stop Gender-Based Violence”. Read more.
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Updates
D1: Freedom of Association and the Right to Bargain Collectively
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D2: Employment Relationship and Social Protection
- The campaign around the Urgent Appeal case of unpaid severance at Specialized supplier APS in El Salvador is in full swing! Green America and Labour Behind the Label both organised Christmas themed cycling actions to call attention to Specialized's complete failure to engage in the case. Will you help spread the word this week? Here is a toolkit with social media materials developed by Green America to share between December 19th-25th.
- In the past months CCC Turkey has interviewed 130 workers in the area hit by the devastating earthquake in February about their working and living conditions since. The report is planned to be launched on January 4th. More information on how to participate in the launch or organise a national launch at a later date will become available here.
- Worker Rights Consortium published factory investigation report on the Body Fashion factory in Thailand last week. Thanks to Südwind in Austria Die Presse published an extensive article about the case (in German).
D3: Living Wages
· FEMNET and ECCHR - in collaboration with NTUF and HBWWF - published a new report on the non-payment of wages in the Pakistani garment industry. Titled "No contracts, no rights: how the fashion industry avoids paying minimum wages in Pakistan", the report shows that out of the 350 workers surveyed, none of them received a living wage, 97% did not have a written employment contract, and 80% did not receive a pay slip. It also highlights the obligations of companies on issues of living wages under the German supply chain law while noting that companies seem to make increasing efforts to address labour rights violations. The report is available here and the press release (in German) is available here.
D4: Worker Safety and Health
- The new International Accord, a framework agreement covering country safety programmes in Pakistan and Bangladesh, announced in November, has published its first signatories. By the morning of December 18th, CET, 74 brands had signed the International Accord, 63 signed the Bangladesh programme, and 90 brands had joined the Pakistan Accord. The International Accord updates regularly here. The CCC International Office has a list here, including notorious non-signatories. The International Office sent a press release to welcome brands that signed and urged brands that have not done so to sign on.
- The Accord Campaigning WIG started social media to urge more brands to sign the Accord on December 14th, which was exactly one year after the Pakistan Accord was announced. You can still join in using the social media kit here. The WIG plans a bigger push in the new year.
D5: Just Transition
- The Democracy at Work Fund published a call for proposals prioritising worker-led efforts at the intersection of workers' rights, gender justice, racial justice, and climate justice. The total amount of the fund will be distributed in awards ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 for a project duration of a maximum of two years. The application deadline for this opportunity is January 31st, 2024, at 23:59 hours CST. This is not a call for proposals in which the CCC-IO can take the lead. We would, however, like to invite you to list your interest in the CCC fundraising coordination table by Wednesday, December 20th, to seek connections with other entities interested in applying and prevent overlap or discrepancy between different proposals referring to the CCC work. Aleida: aleida@cleanclothes.org and Parvathi: parvathi@cleanclothes.org are happy to advise or support where they can. They also suggest that you seek advice and input from the Just Transition WIG. The Just Transition discussion paper developed by the Just Transition WIG and the OP24 presentation of the JT WIG are good sources to use when developing your proposal.
- Public Eye published a follow-up article on air cargo at other companies than Zara: Following in Zara’s slipstream: the airborne fashion of other brands, also available in DE and FR. While Inditex clearly leads with its enormous amounts of air cargo, some others also fly a lot. And there are noteworthy differences in the industry, some companies trying to avoid and phase down air cargo. Brands mentioned are H&M, Primark, Bestseller, Fast Retailing, Lululemon, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Victoria’s Secret, and Calzedonia.
D6: Legislation, Regulation and Binding Mechanisms for Corporate Accountability
- EU policymakers finally reached a provisional agreement on the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. While the agreement represents a first step to change irresponsible corporate behaviour and protect rightsholders globally, it leaves open gaps that fall short of its initial ambition. Some issues still need to be agreed upon at the technical level, but the most "controversial" issues around civil liability, climate, and finance were agreed upon, and this is why the different EU institutions decided to announce that an agreement had been reached. Once a final text is published, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament will have to approve it over the next months formally. You can read Clean Clothes Campaign's press release here.
- Registration for the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector is now open. Use this registration link. The Forum will take place in Paris on February 21 - 22, but sessions will also be accessible online. The preliminary agenda is available here. This agenda will also be complemented with the side sessions. You can find on Insite an overview of the different side sessions CCC members and partners are organising and the main sessions they're speaking in. If your session is not listed, please reach out to Muriel: muriel@cleanclothes.org.
- Join the webinar on perspectives on corporate accountability from South and Southeast Asia tomorrow, December 19th, including perspectives on mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (mHREDD). The webinar will take place in English via Zoom from 4:30 - 6:00pm (IST) // 4:45 - 6:15pm (NPT) // 6:00 - 7:30pm (ICT). For other time zones and to register, click here.
D7: Building the Network Leverage and Power
- On December 7th, the PMEL subgroup organised the annual webinar "GSF in Action" where the WIGS, the Regional Coalitions and the International Office presented their operational plans for 2024. We are looking back at an inspirational webinar and looking forward to seeing the plans and collaborations unfold in 2024. In this folder on Insite, you'll find the presentations of the CCC collective entities, and the link to the recording.
- If anyone is planning to attend the Cornell University Global Labor Institute conference in Feb 2024 in New York, please contact Liz Parker from the Just Transition WIG (liz@cleanclothes.org) and Giuseppe Cioffo, Lobby & Advocacy Coordinator at the CCC's International Office (giuseppe@cleanclothes.org) to enable coordination among Network members and partners.
- Organizing for Power's Core Fundamentals is running an intensive training programme led by Jane McAlevey, from May 9th to June 13th, 2024. This is a free six-week intensive training programme for all groups of 10+ organizers. It's all about organizing for change, and winning over people who don't already agree with us. Details here: Organizing for Power: The Core Fundamentals - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
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Urgent Appeals
- Applications are welcome for the Urgent Appeals fund for case coordination 2024 before January 18th, 2024. This fund covers staff costs to allow organisations in the network to free up a staff member's capacity to spend up to 1 day per week on the coordination of Urgent Appeals case groups. Please read all about it here. Contact Noa: noa@cleanclothes.org if you have any questions or need any kind of support.
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Reported Incidents
- Tracking the industry: CCC IO is tracking specific incidents, violations and protests that are in the public domain relating to FoA, safety, gender, factory closures, layoffs and wages from across the garment supply chain from textile production to textile disposal and recycling. For example, 33 fires across the textile value chain from cotton yarn to recycling centres were reported in India between September and November. The incidents are recorded in a searchable spreadsheet for you to use. Although the spreadsheet is view only, you can still set up a filter by going to Data => Filter views => Create a new temporary filter view. Please tell us what you think of this log of public incidents. Is it useful? Do you have recommendations to improve it? Email report-violations@cleanclothes.org.
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Reading & Audiovisual Material
- Civil society calls on multinational companies and governments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan to take immediate action to formulate laws and regulations related to corporate human rights to end corporate infringement and achieve sustainability for generations to come, article in Environmental Rights Protection Foundation (article in Chinese)
- Clean Clothes Campaign applauds 48 signatories to International Accord, urges more to join, writes Just Style
- New Changing Markets report "Crude Couture: Fashion Brands' Continued Links to Russian Oil, reveals that major polyester producers increased the use of Russian oil in 2023, while the majority of fashion brands and retailers turn a blind eye to the problem, despite being warned about it a year ago
- How (not) sustainable is the fashion industry? writes Fashion United
- New report by Sheffield Hallam University, "Tailoring Responsibility: Tracing Apparel Supply Chains from the Uyghur Region to Europe", provides critical insight into how forced labour-made apparel is moving from the Uyghur Region into the European Union marketplace
- International Accord momentum builds as brands sign longest commitment to date, article by Just Style
- ‘Challenges’ to workers’ rights need clarification in Cambodia, writes The Phnom Phen Post
- Sourcing with due diligence: A commitment to people along the supply chain, article in Sourcing Journal
- EU agrees on forced labour, environmental harm disclosures for companies, writes Reuters
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