This case study provides an overview of the international framework agreement reached between the global telecommunications group Telefónica and Union Network International (UNI). Referred to as the UNI–Telefónica Code of Conduct, the agreement was first reached in March 2001 and further revised in
This case study is based on an analysis of Chiquita documents and papers of the IUF, COLSIBA (Latin American Coordinating Committee of Banana Workers’ Unions) and the Chiquita Agreement on ‘Freedom of association, minimum labour standards and employment in Latin American banana operations’ presented
IKEA signed with Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI, formerly IFBWW) one of the first international framework agreements (IFAs) in May 1998. This IFA has been revised in 2001 to include the internal IKEA code of conduct (IWAY) which had been developed since 1999. The IWAY code of conduct
The Securitas code of conduct dates from 2003 and was revised in April 2006. Based on the simultaneous interest and initiative of both the management and the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, the code was developed by the board of directors of Securitas in Sweden, in which the trade unions are
In recent years, the rapid process of globalisation has triggered a political debate on international working and production standards, and the need for supra-national structures and regulation. The adoption of corporate codes of conduct and international framework agreements (IFAs) is a reflection
Arcelor’s Code of Ethics was adopted in 2005 at a conference gathering 500 managers of the Arcelor Group. The document completed the Arcelor Principles of Responsibility, which outline Arcelor’s vision, ‘Steel solutions for a better world’, and its mission, ‘to assert Arcelor as a reference value in