OVERALL STRUCTURAL RESULTS - ITUC

The ITUC Global Rights Index depicts the world’s worst countries for workers by rating 139 countries on a scale from 1-5 based on the degree of respect for workers’ rights. Workers’ rights are absent in countries with the rating 5 and violations occur on an irregular basis in countries with the rating 1.

When focusing on Freedom of Association, most of the materials have ITUC scores of 3 and 4, Among them, the highest percentage of Aggregate and Sand are 4, and including Steel, Coal, Cement 4, however, in Timber, the vast majority is only 3, which shows that there is probably less labor exploitation where the timber for this project was sourced.

At the global country level, the U.S. ITUC data is relatively less favorable, which may be due to two reasons: one is that labor exploitation and inequity in the U.S. itself is really serious and needs to be improved; the other may be that there is an exhaustive survey and statistical system and instruments in the U.S., which can more completely identify labor exploitation problems and thus reflect them in the ITUC scores.