Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies

By ITUC on January 18, 2016

The global supply chains of 50 companies employ only six per cent of people in a direct employment relationship, yet rely on a hidden workforce of 94 per cent according to new research from the International Trade Union Confederation.

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