The Asia Floor Wage (AFW) Campaign, launched October 7, is calling upon companies sourcing garment production in Asia to implement an Asia Floor Wage.
Currently the poverty wages garment workers earn do not cover basic needs and fall far short of a living wage. The AFW, calculated using the World Bank’s Purchasing Power Parity, puts forth a wage that would allow workers to purchase the same set of goods and services across key garment-producing countries in Asia.
Read more on Asian Floor Wage
Read the statement of the Asian Floor Wage Alliance
The Asia Floor Wage (AFW) Campaign, launched October 7, is calling upon companies sourcing garment production in Asia to implement an Asia Floor Wage.
Currently the poverty wages garment workers earn do not cover basic needs and fall far short of a living wage. The AFW, calculated using the World Bank’s Purchasing Power Parity, puts forth a wage that would allow workers to purchase the same set of goods and services across key garment-producing countries in Asia.
Read more on Asian Floor Wage
Read the statement of the Asian Floor Wage Alliance
The ground-breaking AFW benchmark, developed by a growing Asian-based alliance of labour rights organisations, is a concrete calculation for a minimum living wage, which they believe companies sourcing in the region should implement. The CCC is a member of the AFW International Steering Committee.
More info:
- Learn more about the AFW concept, read the report
- Find out how your organisation can endorse the AFW
- Send a message to key retailers to ask them to take up the AFW
- More questions? See the AFW or the CCC websites or send a message to info@cleanclothes.org
