'US retailers won't aid Bangladesh RMG victims'

• U.S. Retailers Won’t Aid Bangladesh VictimsCreated on November 23, 2013 at 16:47

  
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  A New York Times report says

  US retailers have refused to contribute towards aid for victims of Tazreen fire and Rana Plaza collapse, what a New York Times report said.

  The article, published on Saturday morning, said only a handful of retailers, including Primark, were deeply involved in long-term compensation to the victims.

  However, retailer giants in the likes of Walmart, Sears, Children's Place and other American companies have refused to pay “a single penny.”

  Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, said “There has been a good response from European brands, but none from the US.”

  In some of the worst factory disasters of recent times, Rana Plaza collapse and fire at Tazreen Fashions claimed over 1,200 lives.

  Demands were raised that the global retailers contribute to the relief efforts for the victims.

  But now, it seems, according to Kalpona Akter, that the US giants are not interested in such efforts despite repeated concerns over labour safety coming from the Obama administration.

  The US cited poor working conditions, after the two disasters, and canceled the GSP facility of Bangladesh.

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