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In today’s global economy, corporations coordinate complex chains of suppliers across several different countries. Growing competition and constant downward pressures on prices encourage suppliers to squeeze workers, who are made to work for long hours, for very little pay, and often in precarious and dangerous conditions. The most vulnerable links, the workers at the end of global supply chains, are too often subjected to severe labour exploitation, including human rights violations.
The current discussions on decent work in global supply chains at the ILO’s ILC represent an exceptional opportunity for governments, workers and employers to jointly address what has become one of the key problems of our time.
