To encourage retailers and manufacturers to support and adopt a code
of practice for the Textile, Clothing and Footwear industry, that will
guarantee the production of such goods free of exploitation in Australia.
To lobby the Australian Government to ratify the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention and recommendations on home-based workers.
To urge the Australian government to develop initiatives which
encourage home-based workers to move into the formal economy.
To coordinate and resource supporting organisations in a way which
fosters decentralised and autonomous activities.
This campaign is to be a low-bureaucracy campaign coalition.
To educate consumers about ethical shopping, to enable them to
support industry initiatives which guarantee goods produced free of
exploitation.
To acknowledge the unique role of unions to be the main negotiators
with retailers and manufacturers.
To support the role of the union in involving workers in the
campaign and in disseminating information to these home-based workers of
their right to organise and to receive award wages and conditions.
To urge the Australian government to implement industrial and social
clauses in all economic and trade agreements.
To work cooperatively with the International Clean Clothes Campaign
and other international home-worker groups.
To encourage Australian companies to incorporate a fair practice
code of conduct in their production overseas.
