Working with Business and Unions
Employers' Organizations:
Making a business case to employers for their engagement in anti-trafficking work isn't as tough as it sounds. Companies who abuse workers (e.g. receive migrant workers for the purposes of exploitation) through coercion, deception, by underpaying them, locking them up or denying them their legal benefits are certainly guilty of trafficking, but they are also unfairly undercutting their competitors.
The project has worked with employers' organizations across the GMS to sensitize them to the problem of human trafficking and how it affects them. Collaborating with them to become partners in advocacy, the project has developed a business case that works in trafficking prevention. See our tools and proven practices section.
Workers' Organizations:
Workers' Organizations, such as national trade unions and their umbrella associations, are a natural ally in the fight against trafficking-related abuse of workers everywhere.
Denying foreign migrant workers the right to freedom of association or discouraging them from joining unions in a receiving country is a threat to the labour movement in general, and denies unions access to potential new members.
See how unions in Thailand came together to pledge action to advocate on behalf of foreign migrant workers in Thailand (The Phuket Declaration). Also see our tools and proven practices.
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