The Women’s Leadership of Asia Floor Wage Alliance is asking Walmart to publicly support and commit to ending gender based violence with three immediate action steps:
1. Publicly support and commit to proactively implement an ILO Convention and Recommendation on Gender Based Violence that includes the recommendations from the Asia Floor Wage Alliance and partners.
2. Meet with the Asia Floor Wage Women’s Leadership Committee in the next three months to discuss the supply chain findings and next steps
3. Proactively work with the Asia Floor Wage Alliance to pilot women’s committees in factories that aim to eliminate gender based violence and discrimination from supplier factories.
Garment workers deserve a safe workplace free from gender based violence and consumers don’t want clothes tainted with exploitation and violence. As the world’s largest private employer, Walmart has the power to influence other companies and governments by setting the international industry wide standard that gender based violence in the workplace will not be tolerated.
Asia Floor Wage Alliance
The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) is an international alliance of trade unions and labour rights activists who are working together to demand garment workers are paid a living wage. It began in 2005 when trade unions and labour rights activists from across Asia came together to agree on a strategy for improving the lives of garment workers: a wage for garment workers across Asia that would be enough for workers to live on.