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4. Impacts of Education and Training on Core Labor Standards Compliance
4. Impacts of Education and Training on Core Labor Standards Compliance
Pages 25-34
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WORKERS Roland Schneider (Trade Union Advisory Committee, OECD) described trade union education as contributing to the formation of human and social capital in what he argues is a much-needed broader concept of human capital: In my view, we need a concept For human capital!
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Schneider noted that this legal provision enables trade unions to provide training to worker representatives rather than to a large number of individual participants. These provisions are therefore important determinants of access and cost.
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For example, in soccer ball production in Pakistan part of Nike's supply chain subcontractors used child labor to produce soccer balls, but child workers were not employed at the Nike factory. "So Nike had no awareness of the existence and the depth of child labor in its supply chain, and Lit was]
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USAID endorses trade unions to promote democracy throughout the world. Meehan said that USAID considers unions as "incubators for democracy," and USAID's Office of Democracy and Governance devotes the bulk of its program to education and training of workers, usually through free trade unions.
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The structure of free trade unions has an important function, as local affiliates reach out to the regional and national levels, which in turn are tied into an international framework. Meehan also mentioned several of USAID's implementing partners, including the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the International Labor Rights Fund, and the Academy for Educational Development.
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In 2001 the ILO began work on the Global Compact, an initiative to develop management training activities related to the core international labor standards. Urminsky described the various modules of the program, including making the case to adopt the standards, clarifying the meaning of the principles, and translating them to practice.
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Wolfgang von Richthofen of the ILO described the importance of labor inspection in terms of a "large-scale convergence of interests" that promotes social dialogue. Von Richthofen said that workers have a fundamental interest in maintaining and enhancing employability, which is affected by compliance with standards.
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Concrete results show that training, capacity building, and social infrastructure development focused on labor inspection systems significantly increase the rate of compliance. Barriers to the flow of training exist, and they can inhibit capacity building.
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His own work includes exploring collaborations with different institutions, including the World Bank, the OECD, and academic institutions such as business schools. Con Richthofen stated that since the reorganization of the ILO into four major sectors social protection, social rights, social dialogue, and employment interprogram cooperation has improved significantly.
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The initiative to eliminate child labor from soccer ball production in Pakistan, for example, was successful in achieving certain objectives (reducing child labor) but there were unintended negative consequences associated with the program as well.
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