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Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT)
  • FRAMEWORK
  • GUIDANCE
  • TRAINING /
    CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
  • ADVOCACY PLATFORM
Overview

ACT is a foundation and initiative jointly created by global brands and retailers in the garment, textile and footwear sector and IndustriALL, the global trade union federation representing garment and textile workers. Since its foundation in 2016, 21 brands signed the Memorandum of Understanding, being an agreement between ACT corporate signatories and IndustriALL Global Union on establishing within global supply chains freedom of association, collective bargaining and living wages.

Its objectives are the payment of living wages in the garment, textile and footwear sector and for it to be achieved through national collective bargaining agreements at industry level supported by improved purchasing practices on the ACT member brands.

Activities / Outputs / Results

ACT is the first global commitment in the garment sector that provides a framework through which all relevant actors, including brands and retailers, trade unions, manufacturers and governments can exercise their responsibility and role in achieving living wages:

  • Operationalise the MoU (ACTION).
  • Identify and strengthen synergies among companies and with other initiatives and institutions (COLLABORATION).
  • Engage with trade unions and employers to negotiate, agree and implement national collective agreements to ensure progress towards living wages and brands supporting this through their purchasing practices (TRANSFORMATION).
  • Strategy for purchasing practices to support long-term partnerships with manufacturers in support of ethical trade.
  • Capacity-building including training of managers and workers on freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Note:
ACT also creates country groups consisting of local brand representatives, employers' and workers' organisations and suppliers of brand members.