FLA's Perspective and Analysis on the Designated Supplier Program proposal

In September 2005, student anti-sweatshop groups across the country urged their campus administrators to support a new proposal aimed at strengthening worker rights in the workplace. The proposal, entitled the Designated Supplier Program, calls for greater assurances for freedom of association and living wage in a supplier's supply chain.

The FLA program, including the development of FLA 3.0 and the licensee program, leverages the FLA multi-stakeholder constituency to improve lives of workers around the world. If you need further material or information, please contact Heeral Coleman, FLA University Liaison at HColeman@FairLabor.org.

To listen to the audio recordings from the FLA-WRC Joint Forum in Chicago on March 31, 2006, please click on the following links:

Scott Nova, WRC, Executive Director
Auret van Heeden, FLA, President/CEO
Mark Barenberg, Professor of Labor Law, Columbia University, New York
Jorge Perez-Lopez, FLA, Director of Monitoring (now Executive Director)
Questions and Answers
Conclusion

Here are some documents that summarize the evolving dialogue:

  • FLA's Approach to Sustainable Improvement of Labor Conditions in Factories (PDF, February 2006)
  • Public Statement on the USAS Designated Suppliers Program proposal (PDF, released October 17, 2005)
  • Issues and Comments on the DSP (PDF, released February 16, 2006) and WRC Responds to Issues and Comments document (PDF, March 4, 2006)
  • Points for Schools to Consider Regarding the FLA Program and the DSP (PDF, released March 2006)
  • University Anti-Trust Considerations for DSP (PDF, released March 28, 2006)
  • USAS Launches FLA Watch website (March 2006)
  • FLA Response to USAS' FLA Watch website (PDF, released March 28, 2006)
  • Is it the FLA versus the WRC, or the FLA and the WRC? (PDF, released March 29, 2006)
  • Basic Critique of DSP by Auret van Heerden (PDF, released March 30, 2006)
  • Summary Notes: Joint Forum, UC Berkeley (PDF, March 30, 2006)
  • Summary Notes: Joint Forum, Chicago, IL (PDF, March 31, 2006)
  • The FLA Process and Program Plans (PDF, April 26, 2006)