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Bangladeshi textile workers fear for their safety following the expiry of a successful accord brought in after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster. Global unions say firms could revert to an old model of self-monitoring.
Unions and labour rights groups want brands and retailers to sign a new legally binding safety agreement More calls have come urging global fashion brands and retailers to commit to a new binding safety agreement to continue the work of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. The groundbreaking legally-binding agreement came into force on 15 May 2013 – and expires on 31 May, two weeks from now. Over the course of eight years, the programme has made 1,600 factories safer for over two million garment workers. Unions and labour rights organisations want the 200 brands and retai...
The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring 2,600 more, is the clothing industry’s worst ever industrial incident. It is not just the body count, though, that made the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a nine-story building in the Bangladeshi industrial city of Savar (near Dhaka), capture global attention (briefly) and spur activism around the world to improve the treatment of garment workers. This had been an accident waiting to happen. Structural cracks in the building had been discovered the day before. Businesses on the lower floors (shops and the ba...
The Accord has made âphenomenal changeâ on the ground, inspecting over 1,600 factories, says the BGIWF In the aftermath of the Bangladesh Rana Plaza tragedy in 2013, two initiatives were set up to oversee the country's clothing factories for fire, electrical and structural issues – the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Alliance's tenure comes to an end next month, and there are serious concerns for garment workers if another agreement is not signed soon. Under the oversight of the Accord and Alliance, Bangladesh now ...
Remember Bangladesh garment factory collapse? Compliance is still a charade 8 yrs later The Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than 1,100 garment workers, briefly shone a spotlight on the underbelly of the global fashion business. Text Size: A+ The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring 2,600 more, is the clothing industry’s worst ever industrial incident. It is not just the body count, though, that made the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a nine-story building in the Bangladeshi industrial city of Savar (near Dhaka), capture global attention ...