GLOBAL REPORT: UNFORGETABLE
Global Report: The Uncomfortable Truth About Bangladesh
Asia is known to produce most of the world’s textile goods. China is the biggest manufacturing country in a lot of products. When it comes to textile, there are few countries that are powerful in Asia. A fast growing country in textile is Bangladesh. They are the world’s leading enable of killer price points. Shirts In Bangladesh can be half the price when comparing shirts in China. Bangladesh has several incidents which can be a problem for their productions. The incidents are cause by several things that they should improve.
Bangladesh had a lot of scandals in their country. History’s worst industrial disaster happened in Bangladesh where 1127 lives were taken. It was an of-renovated farmhouse that is called Rana Plaza, and during the years became the country’s fast-growing clothing manufacturing industry. People started seeing cracks and were scared. Workers already warned and some of them said they don’t want to go inside the building because it is risky and scary. They even interviewed one of the employees and she said that if they refused to go inside the building to work, managers were going to fire them from their jobs. They already are a poor country and they can not afford losing their jobs. The article ‘Global Report: The Uncomfortable truth about Bangladesh’, describes, “ It also expose defects in the corporate social- responsibility machinery of Lablow, Canada’s largest grocer.’ It had several shirts of their line called Joe Fresh. They were in a lot of interviews and some questions were not answered, and some stuff is still unclear.
Another issue, is that some work areas are not even meant to be used for industrial purposes. In the article it mentions, “ when extra space is required, new floors are routinely added, and new workers and machinery brought in, often with little consideration as to whether the structure can support the additional weight and vibration”.
Asia is known to produce most of the world’s textile goods. China is the biggest manufacturing country in a lot of products. When it comes to textile, there are few countries that are powerful in Asia. A fast growing country in textile is Bangladesh. They are the world’s leading enable of killer price points. Shirts In Bangladesh can be half the price when comparing shirts in China. Bangladesh has several incidents which can be a problem for their productions. The incidents are cause by several things that they should improve.
Bangladesh had a lot of scandals in their country. History’s worst industrial disaster happened in Bangladesh where 1127 lives were taken. It was an of-renovated farmhouse that is called Rana Plaza, and during the years became the country’s fast-growing clothing manufacturing industry. People started seeing cracks and were scared. Workers already warned and some of them said they don’t want to go inside the building because it is risky and scary. They even interviewed one of the employees and she said that if they refused to go inside the building to work, managers were going to fire them from their jobs. They already are a poor country and they can not afford losing their jobs. The article ‘Global Report: The Uncomfortable truth about Bangladesh’, describes, “ It also expose defects in the corporate social- responsibility machinery of Lablow, Canada’s largest grocer.’ It had several shirts of their line called Joe Fresh. They were in a lot of interviews and some questions were not answered, and some stuff is still unclear.
Another issue, is that some work areas are not even meant to be used for industrial purposes. In the article it mentions, “ when extra space is required, new floors are routinely added, and new workers and machinery brought in, often with little consideration as to whether the structure can support the additional weight and vibration”.