In 2012, the Tarzeen Fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers. It's been slightly forgotten in the aftermath of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse that killed over 1100, but was certainly horrible in its own right--remember, Triangle killed 146 so Tarzeen was nearly as deadly. Of...
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Jason Motlagh and Josh Eidelson have an excellent piece up on the horrors of the Bangladeshi leather industry. When you buy leather goods, where do you think the leather comes.
I suppose it's too much to ask major newspapers to write stories about corporations that are more than fawning portrayals of brilliant CEOs. But this Washington Post piece on departing.
REI (PDF) which works through North Face, another company who has their clothing made in factories where workers die.
As we talked about here earlier, the idea that the kids just aren't doing their activism right because I'm too lazy to find out what the kids are doing today.
The European companies seeking to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh are facing resistance from the factory owners who are heavily invested in the current system, politically powerful, and don't care.
Colin Long's Jacobin essay on visiting the Tarzeen and Rana Plaza factory disaster sites is all worth reading, but the important part of the article is his discussion of the aftermath. For very little has changed. The international accords are all about western brands protecting...
This is lovely. The Australian government wants to outlaw the secondary boycott--for everyone. This means that any group calling for a boycott of a company for involvement with an independent.
Poor Bangladesh. This impoverished low-lying country not only sees its people slaughtered by the apparel industry while it makes clothes for western consumers, but it will also suffer (and is.
I've talked a bit before about how U.S. government contracting priorities contribute to the exploitation of apparel workers overseas. So I want to highlight this report from the International Labor Rights Forum detailing the role of the U.S. military specifically in this problem. You can...
Good news that the European retailers contracting for clothing at the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh that collapsed in April and killed 1100 workers have agreed to pay $40 million.
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and.