The Savar Building Collapse Tragedy

[Banglatiger84]

Originally Posted by iDumb
this is not a garment factory issue....though there is some, as workers shouldnt be threatened to work in a potential hazarzard situation or lose jobs.....

the factories in the building itself met the safety codes, no one thought that the structure of the building in it self would be faulty...... i

That is the whole point. That workers can be forced to work in a building where cracks developed and other establishments asked their workers not to work.

[AsifTheManRahman]

The first world doesn't necessarily understand third world problems. Go ahead, stop buying Bangladeshi garments and be responsible for starving hundreds and thousands of families. Same with the propensity to oppose child labor. What are those kids supposed to eat before they go to school in the morning? Or do you expect them to starve for an education?

[Anher]

The Shame of the Country award goes to Dr. Sheikh Hasina.
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http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/0...try/?hpt=hp_t1

[Ajfar]

^ Really Hasina you can not predict anything? Even after the day before the so called "Accident" when the building started to break down, and people noticed cracks? This ________ doesn't even deserve manusher jutar bari at this point.

[Zunaid]

Originally Posted by mufi_02
I have to look it up. I need his permission too, just in case he wants to be anonymous. will post soon.

You don't give an interview to a global media company if you wish to be anonymous. We all know who he is. And he knows we know.

[Zunaid]

Here is how we have started to kill the golden goose:

Western Brands Ease Away From Bangladesh

BY SHELLY BANJO, BEN OTTO AND BIMAN MUKHERJI

Bangladesh is losing garment orders after a spate of industrial accidents and political turmoil, in a trend that could hobble its economy and open the doors for other Asian exporters to boost their sales to the U.S. and Europe.

Some big U.S. names already have said they are moving out of Bangladesh after a garment-factory building collapsed last week in Savar, a commercial hub outside Dhaka. On Thursday, the death toll in the Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh's worst industrial accident, rose to 430.

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[al Furqaan]

Rampant corruption + Non-stop hartal-ing + Western garment boycotts = Bangladesh being effectively nuked back into the early Mesozoic!

[reverse_swing]

Disney pulls out of Bangladesh factories
The Walt Disney Company told licensees and vendors to halt production in "highest-risk countries" like Bangladesh and Pakistan.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
The Walt Disney Company has stopped production of branded merchandise in Bangladesh, in response to the spate of fatal factory accidents last fall.
The company sent a letter in March to vendors and licensees to transition production out of the "highest-risk countries," like Bangladesh, in order to bolster safety standards in its supply chain.
Disney will also halt production in four other countries: Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan, by April 2014.
The decision was made before last week's devastating collapse of a factory building in Bangladesh that left more than 400 people dead. It was prompted by the November fire at the Tazreen Fashions Factory in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka that killed 112 people, and another fire in Pakistan that killed 262 garment workers last September.
"After much thought and discussion we felt this was the most responsible way to manage the challenges associated with our supply chain," said Bob Chapek, president of Disney Consumer Products.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/02/news...source=cnn_bin

[reverse_swing]

Loblaw Sticks with Bangladesh, but Plans Changes
Loblaw Thursday outlined plans to change the way it does business in Bangladesh, after some of its Joe Fresh-labeled clothing was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed factory there.

Canadian retailer Loblaw Cos., whose brightly colored Joe Fresh clothing was pulled last week from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh, said it plans to continue to source clothing from that developing country.

But, after an outcry over working conditions in Bangladesh, the supermarket chain and its iconic clothing brand Thursday outlined a plan to change the way it does business there. The company will require that products bearing the Joe Fresh label be made in factories that adhere to all local construction and building codes, and it will put Loblaw employees on the ground to make sure those operations “reflect Canadian values and Canadian standards,” Loblaw Executive Chairman Galen Weston said Thursday in a joint news conference with Joe Fresh Creative Director Joe Mimran.

• Read More: The Wall Street Journal >>

[Zunaid]

^^ Now that's the way to do it.

[Zunaid]

This decision was made before the Savar tragedy:

Disney pulls out of Bangladesh factories

By Emily Jane Fox

@emilyjanefox

The Walt Disney Company told licensees and vendors to halt production in "highest-risk countries" like Bangladesh and Pakistan.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

The Walt Disney Company has stopped production of branded merchandise in Bangladesh, in response to the spate of fatal factory accidents last fall.

The company sent a letter in March to vendors and licensees to transition production out of the "highest-risk countries," like Bangladesh, in order to bolster safety standards in its supply chain.

more

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by CricketPagolChele
bhai apni BAL word use korchen ekta vodro nomro shot desh premik jono dorodi plotical party ke identify korar jonno, apnar khobor ache..

True, apparently free speech doesn't apply to creating acronyms that correctly represent political parties in Bangladesh.

[HereWeGo]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan


True, apparently free speech doesn't apply to creating acronyms that correctly represent political parties in Bangladesh.

I can also twist the statement and say
Apparently free speech is highly appreciated by The religious fundamentalists when it benefits them, so much so that they are willing to use cuss words which God forbids......

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by HereWeGo


I can also twist the statement and say
Apparently free speech is highly appreciated by The religious fundamentalists when it benefits them, so much so that they are willing to use cuss words which God forbids......

Yes, but the term BAL is supposedly offensive to BAL lackeys, and I thought the whole point of free speech was to slander religious figures and founding fathers as the colossal douchebags that we might think they could be. I mean its not like the BAL lackeys are going to start riots over the acronym that they picked out themselves or start beheading people for BALesphemy.

I mean you're make it sound as if free speech is some inalienable right that people have to air legitimate grievances about their government. Sheesh.

[HereWeGo]

Post deleted,
Since i have no intention to derail the thread...

[RazabQ]

what's all the broohaha? Just because I forgot to use periods? Ok. B.A.L. - there happy?

[mufi_02]

Originally Posted by iDumb
mufi linkk dao navo interview.. ki search korbo.

ok got his permission from FB. The program had a broader topic but his question relates to tazreen fire, garments and economy. Brief but interesting as it was before this savar tragedy.

Its around 21 minute mark.

[Rubu]

Just watched the CNN interview of Hasina. Gawd! She has no shame.

[Ajfar]

During a visit to the Indian capital, New Delhi, Muhith said the disaster would not harm Bangladesh's garment industry, which is by far the country's biggest source of export income. "The present difficulties ... well, I don't think it is really serious — it's an accident," he said. "And the steps that we have taken in order to make sure that it doesn't happen, they are quite elaborate and I believe that it will be appreciated by all."

Link

I would love to hear Murrobi's "elaborate steps.

[NoName]

Originally Posted by Anher
The Shame of the Country award goes to Dr. Sheikh Hasina.
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http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/0...try/?hpt=hp_t1

She has a doctorate? O_o

[Rubu]

On a different note:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22384529

[Banglatiger84]

I liked the comment about garment owners being paid like a beggar. Its definitely a miracle that they are paid like beggars, even if it is said figuratively, yet many of them afford their lifestyles with such meagre income.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9411CX20130502
In workshops across this South Asian country of 160 million people, however, few are sympathizing with the textile tycoons and their bottom lines. Western retailers are powerful, but so too are the garment moguls.
Thanks to their political clout and now a new Industrial Police force that crushes dissension at their plants, labor activists say, it is the factory owners themselves who keep garment workers' wages lower than anywhere else in the world - and all too often get away with lax safety standards.

Activists such as Akhter who campaign for safer factories and better wages are often treated as enemies of the state in a country whose economy would be devastated if Western brands pulled out.


"They pay you like a beggar and take quality like a king," said Abdul Mannan, who helped open up the industry when he was textiles minister in the early 1990s and now owns more than two dozen factories at home and abroad.
Sometimes buyers refuse to negotiate because they know competition among factory owners for high-volume orders is intense.
"It's not so much the fault of the brands as the employers who are under-cutting each other," said a representative of a large American brand in Bangladesh. "If people are under-cutting each other, of course we take advantage of that - so prices are going down and down and down."



"If any unions demonstrate or raise their voice, the industrial police will come and tell them to stop protesting," said Akhter, the labor activist. "If they don't stop, they are attacked and beaten with sticks."

[Zunaid]

This tragedy is getting buried (the second tragedy) with all other events. We need to keep going.

The death toll has now crossed 800.

[mufi_02]

Originally Posted by Zunaid
This tragedy is getting buried (the second tragedy) with all other events. We need to keep going.

The death toll has now crossed 800.

Boss, another tragedy just struck in a different garments factory. It keeps getting worse.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/offic...h-garment-fire

Maybe this needs another thread, so feel free to merge or make a new one as you see fit.

[Jadukor]

how can 800+ people die and nobody from the administration gets prosecuted? What about people including the Minister of the Ministry of Labor, RAJUK, Pouro Shova people... BGMEA president etc etc... will anybody take some responsibility and resign?