Simultaneously, 55 companies signed the Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textile, including over 20 participants of FTA’s Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), teh FTA said in a press release.With the signing of the Statement of Support, FTA commits to endorsing the goals and the activities that the parties to the agreement wish to pursue, by continuing to support members through its Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) and Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI) towards improving working conditions and environmental performance in factories and farms worldwide.

Under the agreement, a broad coalition of industry organisations including VGT, Modint and Inretail, trade unions FNV and CNV, the Dutch government and NGOs – Solidaridad, UNICEF Nederlan…