Bangladesh Fire: Walmart & Disney Refuse Responsibility - 28:13
Walmart & Disney Refuse Responsibility For Worker Compensation In
Bangladesh Fire Where Death Toll Soared to More than 121 And Where Labor
Organizers Are Tortured and Disappeared
With
Kalpona Akter, Bangladesh
Center for Worker Solidarity
Kalpona Akter, a garment worker
since she was 12 years old, faces myriad criminal charges for organizing for
labor rights in the garment industry and while she mourns brother labor
activists who have been tortured, and others who have been assassinated she
is unrelenting in her organizing against the conditions that led to the
deaths & critical injuries of hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers
recently.
Akter discusses the safety risks, poverty wages, abusive
treatment, unsafe conditions faced by workers who sew the clothes
we wear, along with the government’s campaign of terror
against labor rights activists. Akter places squarely before us the question
of why Bangladeshi workers have to die sewing cheap clothing while the brands
Walmart, H&M, Gap and Disney make millions and avoid responsibility and
compensating the victims of the terrifying blaze for the conditions
that resulted in the fiery deaths.
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