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Action Collaboration Transformation

What is act & how does it work?
The group’s mission is to transform the garment, textile and footwear industry and achieve living wages for workers through collective bargaining at industry level. One particularly game-changing component in ACT’s approach is to include brands’ purchasing practices in the equation.
Where can I read more about Act & a collective bargaining agreement?
You can read more about ACT and the meaning of an industry-wide collective bargaining agreement at www.actonlivingwages.com. A brand’s purchasing practices are an important contributor to achieving fair living wages. We developed a purchasing practice guide as part of our 2013 roadmap.
Why is collaboration important at Inditex?
At Inditex we are committed to having a positive impact and creating value for our stakeholders and for society as a whole. Collaboration with them is crucial. It is essential to advancing along our Sustainability Roadmap, and it is key to our ability to push hard for the transformation of our sector.

What Is Act?

ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation) is an initiative between international brands & retailers, manufacturers, and trade unions to address the issue of living wages in the textile and garment supply chain. While ACT is not an ETI-run programme, many of the brands participating are ETI members and we are closely engaged with the initiative as

Why Do We Need An Initiative on Living Wages?

Brands & retailers are increasingly aware that raising wages of workers in the textile and garment supply chain to a ‘living wage’ is something that cannot be achieved by retailers and brands alone. ACT is the first global framework on living wages in the garment sector that brings together all relevant stakeholders; identifying what each stakehold

How Will Act Achieve this?

ACT aims to improve wages in the industry by establishing industry collective bargaining in key garment and textile sourcing countries, supported by world class manufacturing standards and responsible purchasing practices. See full list on ethicaltrade.org

What Is Industry Collective Bargaining?

Industry collective bargaining is a mechanism that brings together national representatives of manufacturers and workers - namely employer associations and trade unions - to negotiate and agree wages and conditions that will apply to a whole industry sector within that country. The collective agreements that result are legally binding and enforceab

Why Is Industry Collective Bargaining Vital to Achieving Living Wages?

Industry collective bargaining differs from collective bargaining at an individual factory level as it means that ALL workers and manufacturers in the garment sector within that country can negotiate their wages under the same conditions, regardless of which factory they work for, and which retailers and brands they produce for. See full list on ethicaltrade.org

What Are The Benefits of Industry Collective Bargaining Agreements?

They take the labour costs out of competition, enabling conditions to improve for all workers in that industry. They can be designed to ensure that all workers – including out-sourced, sub-contracted, migrant and agency workers – are included. They mean that individual brands & retailers can be assured that the factories that supply them are requir

Which Brands Are Participating in Act?

Esprit, Arcadia, N Brown Group, Tesco, Pentland, Debenhams, C&A, Topshop/Topman, Inditex, Tchibo, ASOS, H&M, Primark, New Look, Next. See full list on ethicaltrade.org

Further Information

ACT website ACT initiative factsheet HiiL - ACT: Towards living wages in global supply chains Contact: Henk Jan Scholten, henkjan.scholten@hiil.org See full list on ethicaltrade.org