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Rob Wayss
Executive Director
Stichting Bangladesh Accord Foundation
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Rob Wayss
Rob Wayss is the Executive Director (Nov. 2013 - current) and Acting Chief Safety Inspector (Oct. 2016 - June 2018) of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh / 2018 Transition Accord. The Accord is an independent, legally binding agreement between 200 plus global companies and 2 global unions (IndustriAll and UNI) and their national garment worker federation affiliates. Worker Rights Consortium, Clean Clothes Campaign, International Labor Rights Forum, and Maquila Solidarity Network are witness signatories to the Accord. The Accord is designed to make garment factories in Bangladesh safe workplaces.
The Accord includes independent safety inspections of covered factories, public reporting of the results of these inspections and the progress in remediating identified safety hazards, a labor-management safety and health committee at every Accord supplier factory, and workers of covered factories access to a credible, Accord implemented, safety and health complaints mechanism. There are approximately 1700 factories producing for the Accord signatory companies in Bangladesh.
Rob has 26 years’ experience in the US, Europe, Asia, and Central America as a labor and industrial relations practitioner, advocate in labour - management grievance and arbitration proceedings, and in promoting fundamental workplace rights. He has performed this work in various capacities with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Labor Relations, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (AFL-CIO), the US public employee unions (AFSCME), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). He has taught labor relations courses at Empire State College (SUNY). He served as an agricultural extension volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Lesotho, Southern Africa (1991-93).
Rob has a Masters degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Rhode Island, USA. He has lived and worked in Bangladesh for more than 11 years.
Stichting Bangladesh Accord Foundation
Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh / 2018 Transition Accord
Prins Hendrikkade 25, 1012 TM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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