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TIMBER
Known Manufacturer: Nordic Structures
Raw material sourcing for timber for this project was conducted 100% in Canada.
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The ITUC Score is 3.0 because the entirety of the wood for the project was sourced in Canada which has a ITUC score of 3.0.
The GSI score is 0.47 which also makes sense as Canada has a very low GSI score.
As you can see in the charts to the right, the distribution for the ITUC (Freedom of Association) and GSI (Victims of Modern Slavery) are all under one number and location, Canada.
For other materials for which we do not know the exact origins, this distribution varies greatly based on the likelihood of where each material could have been originated from and the conditions (ITUC & GSI) of those locations.
ITUC measures labor exploitation through collected data from national unions and government policies. They send questionnaires to national unions in 163 countries asking to report violations of workers’ rights then hold regional meetings with the trade experts and disseminate the report respective to the region. The ITUC then contacts various unions directly when it is identified that a violation has occurred. The documentation is summarized, made publicly accessible, then read against a list of 97 indicators of violations of workers’ rights. A country receives a point when the text from that country is read against the indicator list and they correspond to an item on that list. Then the countries are rated in clusters from 1 to 5+ with 1 representing the least indicators triggered and 5+ being the worst.
Global Slavery Index measures labor exploitation through data collected from the Vulnerability Model and nationally representative surveys. It then uses individual predictions to create country level risk scores to compare against population estimates of modern slavery proportionate to each country’s relative risk. They then estimate the number of victims based on the population data and estimates of added state imposed forced labor to cover all forms of modern slavery. The score for modern slavery is by the risk of X number of victims per 1000 population.
