Solidarity Center Report: A Union Could Have Prevented Bangladesh Tragedy
Friday, May 3, 2013(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)More than 430 people have now been confirmed dead in last week’s building collapse in Bangladesh, the country’s worst industrial disaster on record. A 16-year-old garment worker whose right hand was amputated after she was pulled from the wreckage told the Solidarity Center that the factory owner said she would lose a month’s wages if she did not go to work the day the building fell. “If those workers had a collective voice to stand up to factory managers, this tragedy might never have happened,”says Solidarity Center Asia Regional Program Director Tim Ryan. Read the full story at the Solidarity Center.