Consumers are increasingly seen as playing an important role in global labour governance through the establishment of voluntary certification programmes that promise better economic and social conditions for workers in global value chains. In the Sri Lankan tea sector, however, these private forms of governance (Rainforest Alliance (RA), UTZ Certified and the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP)) at best have no effect and at worst are associated with indecent forms of work. Rather, conditions of work are defended by powerful trade unions that exercise structural power via their strategic position in the value chain and associational power through links with political parties and residual ethnic ties within and between nation‐states. It is evident that through close collaboration between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the tea sector unions, workers are able to leverage institutional power through both national and international labour standards to reinforce decent work for those at the very bottom of the global value chain.

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“体面的杯赛”：斯里兰卡茶叶行业的工人力量和消费者力量

通过建立自愿性认证计划，消费者有望在全球劳工治理中扮演重要角色，该计划将为全球价值链中的工人提供更好的经济和社会条件。但是，在斯里兰卡的茶产业中，这些私人治理形式（雨林联盟（RA），UTZ认证和道德茶伙伴关系（ETP））最好没有效果，最坏的情况是与不雅的工作形式有关。相反，工作条件是由强大的工会捍卫的，工会通过其在价值链中的战略地位行使结构权，并通过与政党和民族国家内部或国家之间的剩余族裔纽带的联系行使协会权力。