" Accountability and Remedy in Global Supply Chains: Considerations for Workers and Unions - Global Labour Rights Reporter Volume 1, Issue 2", Aug 2021

For the second issue of the Global Labour Rights Reporter, the Editorial Board has chosen the theme of “Accountability and Remedy in Global Supply Chains: Considerations for Workers and Unions”. Over the last several decades, a global system to produce goods and services has been built—by design—to push as much economic risk as possible down the supply chain (and in particular onto workers) and to pull up most of the economic benefits. At the same time, the legal rights and interests of MNEs tend to be well protected in courts and arbitral tribunals while workers have few effective means to hold these MNEs accountable for the harms their actions cause. The global pandemic has only exacerbated these pre-existing dynamics...