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Checking Boxes, Cheating Workers: How Social Audit Firms are Complicit in Labor Rights Abuses
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What is WSR?
Given the demonstrable failure of corporate social responsibility schemes and multi-stakeholder initiatives, Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) is the only existing model with the proven potential to afford protection for the most vulnerable and lowest-wage workers in global supply chains.
About the WSR Network
The WSR Network builds understanding of the WSR model among a wide range of relevant actors, provides support and coordination for worker-led efforts to replicate the model, and shifts the paradigm to establish the model as the baseline for workers’ rights programs within global supply chains.
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Checking Boxes, Cheating Workers: How Social Audit Firms are Complicit in Labor Rights Abuses
Checking Boxes, Cheating Workers: How Social Audit Firms are Complicit in Labor Rights Abuses
The failures of social auditing are widely documented. Yet over the past few decades, this form of private labor and human rights enforcement has become increasingly commonplace across industries from farms to factories to construction sites.
Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Report Recommends WSR Model
The Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking’s report “No country is immune: working together to end modern slavery & human trafficking” recommends the WSR model as a key solution to address, remediate, and prevent forced labor and human trafficking.
Nike Lies: Debunking their False Arguments & Wage Theft Schemes
New report spells out Nike’s failures to address their human rights obligations - and highlights the complicity of the social auditing industry in undermining workers’ rights and putting clients’ commercial interests ahead of human rights obligations.
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Add your name to the growing list of organizations and individuals that support WSR!
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Building Dignity for Construction Workers in Vermont
A new collaboration was recently launched to bring the WSR model to Vermont’s construction industry. Migrant Justice’s Milk with Dignity program is well-respected in the region for its track record of protecting dairy workers’ human rights. A growing number of Migrant Justice members are working on construction sites, and recent news stories have revealed overcrowded housing conditions, putting pressure on the industry to act.
Worker-to-Worker Exchanges: The Heart of Building a Worker-driven Program
Part of what makes the WSR model unique is the focus on worker-to-worker empowerment and learning. One of the roles the WSR Network plays is facilitating this kind of learning and leadership among workers. This summer, one of our members, Migrant Justice, welcomed workers who were eager to learn more about the Milk with Dignity program.
Towards a Worker-driven Just Transition
The planet is heating up. In the month of July, the record for the hottest day on earth was made and then broken the following day. 2023 was the hottest year on record, and 2024 is on track to beat that record.
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