Ten Years After the World’s Deadliest Garment Factory Disaster
In 2013, more than 1,130 garment workers were killed when the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh. Has enough changed to keep it from happening again?
Imagine you’re sent home from work because there are cracks in the building. You’re told to come back the next day, and you do, dutifully, because you don’t have a choice; you don’t want to get fired. The owner of the building says it’s just a problem with the plaster.
But when you show up, it’s clear that the problem runs deeper. You don’t want to go back in, but your manager tells you that you’ll lose a month’s pay and your bonus if you don’t. You see another manager hit a coworker who doesn’t want to go into work.
Ten years ago, that was the choice facing garment workers and other
staff at the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As we now know,
the building collapsed at about 9 a.m. on April 24, killing more than
1,130 people, most of whom were garment workers.
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