Again mass murder for profit. On 24 April thousands of underpaid workers were forced to enter the illegally built factories at Rana Plaza in Dhaka. The building had just been declared unsafe. The building collapsed. Union activists in Dhaka joined the rescue teams, but they also had to deal with police attacks on the streets, as thousands of garment workers from all factories went on strike and tried to march to the headquarters of the employers' association. But many of the mass murderers were safely away from Bangladesh. The global fashion companies that contract out the work to Bangladesh, chasing low wages and conditions, are just as responsible as the local factory owners. This mass murder is the latest in a shocking series. In September 2012 two factories burned on the same day in Pakistan, 325 workers were killed. In November 2012 the Tazreen factory in Dhaka burned and 112 workers were killed. We send our condolences and solidarity to the workers and union activists of Dhaka. We send our support to all workers taking industrial action or protest actions against companies that kill workers.
Send your protest message to the Bangladesh government here.
Again mass murder for profit. On 24 April thousands of underpaid workers were forced to enter the illegally built factories at Rana Plaza in Dhaka. The building had just been declared unsafe. The building collapsed. Union activists in Dhaka joined the rescue teams, but they also had to deal with police attacks on the streets, as thousands of garment workers from all factories went on strike and tried to march to the headquarters of the employers' association. But many of the mass murderers were safely away from Bangladesh. The global fashion companies that contract out the work to Bangladesh, chasing low wages and conditions, are just as responsible as the local factory owners. This mass murder is the latest in a shocking series. In September 2012 two factories burned on the same day in Pakistan, 325 workers were killed. In November 2012 the Tazreen factory in Dhaka burned and 112 workers were killed. We send our condolences and solidarity to the workers and union activists of Dhaka. We send our support to all workers taking industrial action or protest actions against companies that kill workers.
Send your protest message to the Bangladesh government here.
