Special thank you to Target! AAFA’s Fall 2016 Executive Committee Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting took place today and yesterday at Target’s Minneapolis headquarters. A very special thank you to Kellie Davies Brown, one of AAFA’s newest board members, for helping to organize such a unique and engaging program.

Hanjin Shipping update: AAFA has been closely tracking the ever-changing circumstances following the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy and its impact on members. As part of these ongoing efforts, AAFA will be joined by Ken O'Brien from Gemini Shippers Group for a fourth member-only call this Friday, September 30 at 3:00 PM ET. Members can click here to register (login required).

 

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) update: AAFA, other trade associations, and many individual companies, including a number of AAFA members, fanned out in the House of Representatives last week for a TPP fly-in. The group met with nearly 50 lawmakers urging them to vote Yes when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement is considered by Congress later this year. Couldn’t join us? No problem. You can advocate for TPP’s passage right from your desk or smart phone by clicking on this link. 

 

See all of AAFA’s latest letters, comments, and testimony here. 

 

 

It’s 2016 Employee Voter Registration Week! Encourage voter registration among your employees! Learn more and register here. Use hashtags #NationalVoterRegistrationDay and #EmployeesVote to show your support.

 

New social responsibility resource for AAFA members: AAFA and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) developed a Factory Audit Training/Checklist resource to help responsible sourcing/corporate social responsibility (CSR) teams to better engage with quality assurance, quality control, sourcing, and other company functions that are in factories on a regular basis. The AAFA/RILA tool provides a training template and a checklist for basic social compliance issues. Click here for more information (login required).