Abstract
Wages for garment workers continue to languish at levels often way below those of a living wage. Efforts by individual multinational corporations to improve conditions in their supply chains have failed to have any significant impact on the predominant model of low-wage manufacturing that drives garment production worldwide. Recognizing that nothing less than a fundamental change to the way that production is organized in garment supply chains will ever deliver sustained and enforceable improvement to wages and conditions, IndustriALL is working with major clothing brands in a process known as ACT to develop systems of industry-wide collective agreements that are linked to purchasing practices to ensure that a larger share of the value generated is passed on to workers. The ACT process is a significant step towards creating genuine supply chain industrial relations in the garment industry.