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1. Terms
2. Background
3. What is AFW? Who is AFW?
4. How does AFW calculate the AFW?
5. Summary: importance of AFW
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1. Terms
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• National legal minimum wagePolitical demands orresult of political
negotiations:
Right to a living wageacc. to European Social Charta,UN Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights Art 23(3) + Art25(1) 1948: cover basic needsplus desretionary income
ILO conventions 26 (1928!), 99(1951) und 131 (1970)
category of humanrights
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LIVING WAGES
ASIA FLOOR WAGE=minimum living wage
AVERAGE REGIONAL WAGE
AVERAGE GARMENT INDUSTRYWAGE INCL. OVERTIME AND
FRINGE BENEFITS
POVERTY LINE
AVERAGE GARMENT INDUSTRYWAGE INCL OVERTIME
LEGAL MINIMIUM WAGE
AVERAGE GARMENT INDUSTRYWAGE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE
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LIVING WAGES
ASIA FLOOR WAGE=minimum living wage
AVERAGE REGIONAL WAGE
AVERAGE GARMENT INDUSTRYWAGE INCL. OVERTIME AND
FRINGE BENEFITS
POVERTY LINE
AVERAGE GARMENT INDUSTRYWAGE INCL OVERTIME
LEGAL MINIMIUM WAGE
AVERAGE GARMENT INDUSTRYWAGE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE
MSI 1 living wage estimate
MSI 2 living wage estimate
Average wage in region X
Average garment industry wage inregion Y
Average garment industry wage inregion X
TU A starvation line
Government poverty line
Average garment industry wage withovertime in region X
LEGAL MINIMIUM WAGE
Average garment industry wage inregular working time in regiona X
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7Methodology:
Wage Ladder
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45%6$/7+)(80.
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10Real wages of garment industry workers are
- sometimes below the absolute poverty line of1 USD per day,
- far below a country‘s relative poverty line (60%median income),
- between 50% and 10% of a living wage.
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1. Legal mimimum wages in reality setthe ceiling for garment workers, notthe bottom line.
2. Legal minimum wages have for along time determined sourcingdecisions of buyers.
3. The legal minimum wages fail toprotect workers and theirdependents.
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Labour unrests and wagestruggles 2010/11 in
Bangladesh, Cambodia,Laos, China andMyanmar
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- started in India
- initiated 2005 by Asian labour activists (TUs andNGOs) along with research institutions and globalcampaign organisations like CCC
- turned out that wages is THE cross-cutting andcentral issue
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International Coordinating Office:AnannyaAnannya BhattacharjeeBhattacharjee, Society for , Society for LabourLabour & Development, India & Development, India
Sub-regional coordinating offices
Steering committee:
India: HindHind MazdoorMazdoor SabhaSabha (HMS), (HMS), New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), IndiaNational Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union CongressAll India Trade Union Congress((AITUC)
Sri Lanka: Dabindu Collective, JSSIndonesia: SPN, GSBI, Trade Union Rights Center (TURC)Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong/ChinaGlobalization Monitor, Hong Kong/ChinaPSWS, MalaysiaCommittee for Asian Women (CAW)
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)Action Aid, UKJobs with Justice, USA
Alliance supporters inmost Asian garment production countries
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Regional strategy for collective bargaining
Buyers:
A living wage isa corner stone
of decentworking
conditions.
Governments:
Sustainablegrowth model for
nationaleconomies;
Shaping a socialglobalization
Manufacturers/Suppliers:
Compete ongrounds of quality,sustainability, not
low wages
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„In the global garment industry brands andretailers have profited hugely fromoutsourcing production to low-wagecountries, capitalising on poverty wage andbenefiting from weak enforcement of labourlaw.They are fully responsible that the workerswho make their products are paid a livingwage.“Anannya Bhattacharjee, Asia Floor WageInternational Coordinator
Buyers
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4. How does AFW calculate theAFW?
Retailers/ buyers often arguedthat difficulties in determiningand calculating a living wagemakes it difficult to reach thisnorm.
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wage = food + non-food costs
calculation assumptions:- food: 3000 cals/adult/day- non-food = food- average household size: 2 adults + 2 children- working week of 48 hours- comparability: international currency PPP$
2009/10: 475 PPP$ / month2011/12: 540 PPP$ / month
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19077 SLR16706SRI LANKA
2.132.202 Rupiah1.868.650INDONESIA
12248 Takas10754BANGLADESH
7967 Rupees6968INDIA
1843 RMB1639CHINA
540 PPP$2011/12
475 PPP$2009/10
COUNTRY
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5. Summary: importance of AFW
A. Solid foundation: in depth research into working andliving conditions of garment workers in Asia,predominantly women
B. Regional minimum living wage formula
C. Cross-border approach against relocation threat -challenge: labour solidarity
D. Integrated strategy of organising, worker education,political campaigning and bargaining with a cleargender perspective
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The AFW responds to the challenges for thelabour movement (trade unions and labour-related NGOs) :
- global supply chains,
- prevalance of informal and precarious work and
- the crises of traditional tools of labour conflicts
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Thank you for your attention!