Alrai - The exports of leather and knitting industries for the first nine months of this year amounted to $ 1.47 billion, with a growth rate of 8.8% for the same period in 2018, according to the representative of the sector in the Jordan Chamber of Industry, Engineer Ehab Al-Qadri.

Al-Qadri stressed the keenness of Jordanian industrial companies working in this sector to provide a sound work environment for workers.

According to Al-Qadri, the capital of the industrial establishments operating in this sector amounted to about $ 209 million, with a number of industrial and craft facilities in excess of 1,200 establishments, and Al-Qadri emphasized in this regard with the development witnessed by the Jordanian labor force in the sector, as their number increased from 8,000 in 2010 to 19 One thousand workers in the sector in 2019.

Al-Qadri’s statements came at the signing ceremony of the fourth collective bargaining agreement for the knitting and garment sector between the Jordanian Association of Garment and Textile Exporters and the General Union for Spinning and Weaving and Garment Workers and the General Syndicate of Knitting Factory Owners, as part of a better work program - Jordan, where this agreement came as a result of efforts exerted and what Caused by previous agreements. Which was signed between those parties during the past periods.

He pointed to the joint efforts between the various parties, all of which helped raise the capabilities and capabilities of employees and employees of the General Syndicate for workers in the woven sector, focus on equal rights and wages for Jordanian and foreign workers in factories, and the formation of specialized labor committees in different industrial areas through training and raising skills for workers In the factories and holding training courses for human resources managers in the factories, especially those related to the subject of "respect in the work environment", and intensive training sessions were held for employees of the Ministry of Labor and during the meeting, the attendees discussed meaningful future steps This is due to the advancement of the garment industry sector and the development of a work environment that attracts Jordanian workers specifically in this sector.

It is worth noting that Better Work - Jordan is part of the Better Global joint work program between the International Labor Organization and the International Finance Corporation, which aims to improve working conditions and enhance competitiveness in the garment industry in Jordan.

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