Worker Voice

Purpose

ASC recognises the importance of placing workers, as key rightsholders, at the centre of our programmes. This has several dimensions, including:

1. Ensuring employees are aware of their rights and building their capacity to defend them where needed.
2. The freedom for employees to join trade unions or informal associations to bargain collectively about their working conditions.
3. Mechanisms at farms and feed mills through which employees can speak up about grievances or when change is necessary.
4. External grievance mechanisms that are independent of the farm or feed mill.

ASC is beginning work on this programme and is actively looking to collaborate with workers’ organisations, human rights organisations and other NGOs on this topic.

Contact person: Clare Stevens