Disaster of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi disaster: What price those £10 chinos now?
Head Line:
Primark, Bonmarché and Western consumers must take a share of the responsibility for the deaths in the Bangladeshi clothing factory.
By: David Blair
Published By: The Telegraph
Date: 25 Apr 2013
Summary:
This article is about the distressing incident which took place in Bangladesh where 228 people died in the fall down of eight storey’s Rana Plaza.
Rana Plaza had shops, offices and factories crowded with many people. But due to its substandard construction building got collapsed and fell down killing many people. While many of them got trapped and seriously wounded and the Bangladeshi government confirmed a day of national grief.
Rana Plaza contained four garment factories which were supplying economical garments to global retailers like Primark and Bonmarché with their western customer base. Even it was announced that the building is no safer for work and needs to be evacuated on immediate basis but New Wave workers were forced to work in order to fulfill the orders of Primark and Bonmarché.
Initially both British companies accepted that New Wave was among their suppliers and committed to offer the possible support but later on refused to take any kind of responsibility in this regard. In the opinion of retail consultants and other professionals both of the companies are responsible to inspect and monitor the minimum working standards and overall conditions in which their designs and products are being produced as they are earning revenues by selling the same products. The cheap labour and workers who are working in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, SriLanka etc have the similar rights as of western workers and they should be equally acknowledged for their profession and work.
Most of the big retailers like Primark, Bonmarché are outsourcing their products from under developed countries and their customers are getting benefits too of buying low priced items. The Government of
Head Line:
Primark, Bonmarché and Western consumers must take a share of the responsibility for the deaths in the Bangladeshi clothing factory.
By: David Blair
Published By: The Telegraph
Date: 25 Apr 2013
Summary:
This article is about the distressing incident which took place in Bangladesh where 228 people died in the fall down of eight storey’s Rana Plaza.
Rana Plaza had shops, offices and factories crowded with many people. But due to its substandard construction building got collapsed and fell down killing many people. While many of them got trapped and seriously wounded and the Bangladeshi government confirmed a day of national grief.
Rana Plaza contained four garment factories which were supplying economical garments to global retailers like Primark and Bonmarché with their western customer base. Even it was announced that the building is no safer for work and needs to be evacuated on immediate basis but New Wave workers were forced to work in order to fulfill the orders of Primark and Bonmarché.
Initially both British companies accepted that New Wave was among their suppliers and committed to offer the possible support but later on refused to take any kind of responsibility in this regard. In the opinion of retail consultants and other professionals both of the companies are responsible to inspect and monitor the minimum working standards and overall conditions in which their designs and products are being produced as they are earning revenues by selling the same products. The cheap labour and workers who are working in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, SriLanka etc have the similar rights as of western workers and they should be equally acknowledged for their profession and work.
Most of the big retailers like Primark, Bonmarché are outsourcing their products from under developed countries and their customers are getting benefits too of buying low priced items. The Government of
References: 1- Margalla Towers Tragedy Islamabad, Pakistan – Year 2005 http://dawn.com/news/1048433/margalla-towers-tragedy http://www.dawn.com/news/957951/margalla-towers-tragic-reminder-of-pain-negligence 2- Ali Enterprises Garment Factory Disaster Karachi, Pakistan – Year 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Pakistan_garment_factory_fires http://tribune.com.pk/story/435258/karachi-garment-factory-fire-kills-20/