To support collective worker empowerment, the company works with local or global trade unions to support freedom of association in its supply chains. It enters into a global framework agreement that covers its supply chains and/or an enforceable supply chain labor rights agreement with trade unions or worker organizations. Where there are regulatory constraints on freedom of association, the company ensures workplace environments in which workers are able to pursue alternative forms of organizing
The company: (1) works with independent local or global trade unions to support freedom of association in its supply chains; (2) discloses that it is party to a global framework agreement that covers its supply chains and/or an enforceable supply chain labor rights agreement with trade unions or worker organizations; (3) takes steps to ensure workplace environments in which its suppliers’ workers are able to pursue alternative forms of organizing (e.g., worker councils or workermanagement dialogues) where there are regulatory constraints on freedom of association; and (4) provides at least two examples covering different supply chain contexts of how it improved freedom of association and/or collective bargaining for its suppliers’ workers such as migrant workers (e.g., by taking action where suppliers impede workers’ rights to freedom of association and/or collective bargaining or by engaging policy makers to improve respect for such rights).