BTS: Cathy, what were workers and workers’ organisations putting on the table during this year’s ILC?
CF: Well, beyond the basics of a supply chain convention, we were looking at migrant workers, homeworkers, and women workers – all of whom are crucial in supply chains. With women workers, our goal has been to make sure that they feature in discussions, because this autumn we’re going to be having an expert level meeting to discuss gender-based violence in the work place, and we think that is a key issue in supply chains. All in all, we think this first ILC conversation is a really important political marker that says, ‘there’s problems in supply chains, the way they’re structured is intentional, it’s not an accident that it has become so hard for workers around the world to have power, and we want to do something about that’.
BTS: You mention intentionality, can you elaborate a little bit more on that for us please?
