We focus on contributing to the
elimination of the causes of poverty
through ?The Living Wages North and
South Initiative, a Strategic Campaign for
Corporate Social Responsibility and the
defence of worker rights
Core objectives:
• Make a strategic contribution to the
gradual closing of the North-South wage
gap, by equalizing wages of workers of the
same MNCs in equivalent jobs through the
Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs)
mechanism.
• Generate upward pressure on South's
formal /informal sectors, in order to raise
the benchmark for labour endowments
until placed at par with North's labour
endowments.
• Contribute to embed in business culture
the concept of corporate social
responsibility by demanding ILO
compliance, and monitoring and qualifying
social economic and environ-mental impact
of global corporate activity, in sync with
the principles of the UN Global Compact.
The Proposal: Equalize Wages in a
Maximum Time Length of Not More Than
30 Years.
