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Originally Posted by BANFAN
Why would buyers take that extra responsibility to fix our problems?
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The same reason foreign diplomats play role to calm our political situation, the same reason foreign countries help us with relief goods in time of disasters. Lives have been lost here and the buyers are human beings too. Moreover this disaster is different than the natural ones like flood or earthquake. Although those workers were not their direct employees, they were sort of contractors. And the buyers have a duty of care to those workers. This exact same thing have been discussed in Ethical Business Standards and made part of business studies around the world recently. And if you do a bit of research you will find that poor working condition of Bangladeshi garment workers has been used as the main example. That's why Primark and the other Canadian clothing company decided to offer compensations to the victims' families. Yes govt should take quick action to improve the working condition but we all know they won't do it. If this sort of accident happened in a developed country there would be half a dozen of new laws and regulations by now. There would be a major shake up in the industry. But we don't see much activity from govt regarding this. Thats why we need international pressure like we need it for other domestic matters time to time.