Stirling Smith

Stirling was active in trade union education in the UK before working in India as a Chief Technical Adviser for the International Labour Organisation. He has worked for DFID, British Council, Fair Labour Association, trade unions, NGOs and several companies. His areas of expertise include child labour, HIV/AIDS in the workplace, migrant labour, social dialogue and industrial relations, health and safety at work and co-operatives.

Blog posts from this author

Death of a worker

4 July 2014
A small news story tucked away on the back page of a Dhaka newspaper should remind us of why we need ethical trade urgently, thinks Stirling Smith, ETI trainer, writing from Dhaka.

Happy New Year?

15 January 2014
Stirling Smith expects few surprises in the ethical trade stories that will hit the headlines in 2014.
Demonstrations marking the Rana Plaza building collapse, Bangladesh | Photo: Awaj Foundation

Rana Plaza – six months on

24 October 2013
It is six months since the Rana Plaza collapse, with the deaths of 1,127 workers and nearly 2,000 workers injured. How do we stop another disaster?