Date of publication: January 17, 2007
Source: Financial Times (editorial)
Author: Neil Kearney
Excerpt from article:
Sir, When will the retail sector learn that positive action, not a further public relations exercise, is needed in the battle to stamp out labour exploitation in the textiles and food supply chains? ("Big retailers join forces in an effort to fight labour abuses", January 11.) The last thing needed at the moment is another standards initiative joining an already overcrowded field of weaker and weaker codes and a decade of multiple social auditing that has done little or nothing to halt growing labour rights abuses...