"The globalization of supply chains and the need to secure decent working conditions along global production lines has for some years been gaining in importance for the ILO's Decent Work Agenda, and it is encouraging that the International Labour Conference will discuss the issue at its 105th Session in June 2016. While the ILO's classic means of action in relation to conditions of work in multinational enterprises has been to provide guidance through its supervisory mechanisms, more limited action has been devoted to promoting the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration), adopted in 1977. This article argues that after a thorough review of both the text and the follow-up mechanism, the MNE Declaration should be included in the future “package” of initiatives established by the Organization to respond to the decent work challenges in global production systems."

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