Monday, May 20, 2013

The building collapse in Bangladesh is their Bopal.

The parties involved in enslaving the people of Bangladesh need to be sued for the deaths and harm they caused here.

It was the government of India that sued on behalf of the people of Bopal. I strongly suggest the country of Bangladesh do the very same thing. The poor people of Bangladesh does not have the resources to sue, that is why they are enslaved. They have no resources to improve their conditions.

Bangladesh Factory Safety Accord: At least 14 major North American retailers decline to sign (click here)

May 17, 2013


...Major European retailers -- for example, Marks & Spencer and Carrefour -- have joined the agreement. Others who've signed on include companies recently involved with factory disasters in Bangladesh, such as Swedish retailer H&M and Italian fashion house Benetton. A 2010 factory fire at a facility that made cardigans for H&M killed 21 people, and Bennetton had a supplier in the Rana Plaza factory that collapsed last month, killing more than 1,100 people.
PVH, parent to Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, signed the accord, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, which agreed just hours before the deadline. That leaves plenty of U.S. retailers absent from the agreement, according to the Worker Rights Consortium, an international labor monitoring group. However, some retailers, like Walmart, claim they are working on separate initiatives to improve conditions and workplace safety in Bangladesh.
Here are 14 North American retailers manufacturing goods in Bangladesh that have not signed the safety accord:...