U.S. Retailers Decline to Aid Factory Victims in Bangladesh

[snookypookums]

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[I]Rescue workers at the Tazreen fire in 2012.[/I]

[QUOTE]One year after the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh, many retailers that sold garments produced there or inside the Rana Plaza building that collapsed last spring are refusing to join an effort to compensate the families of the more than 1,200 workers who died in those disasters.

A handful of retailers — led by Primark, an Anglo-Irish company, and C&A, a Dutch-German company — are deeply involved in getting long-term compensation funds off the ground, one for Rana Plaza’s victims and one for the victims of the Tazreen fire, which killed 112 workers last Nov. 24.

But to the dismay of those pushing to create the compensation funds, neither Walmart, Sears, Children’s Place nor any of the other American companies that were selling goods produced at Tazreen or Rana Plaza have agreed to contribute to the efforts.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/business/international/us-retailers-decline-to-aid-factory-victims-in-bangladesh.html?_r=0[/URL]

[Bradyns]

Out of sight out of mind.

What assholes.

[Zonesylvania]

I wonder why big corporates always find the need to step all over their sweatshop workers and even deny them their just dues in the form of compensation.

Goes to show that at one stage, all have-nots are considered fair game by those at the apex of society, who manipulate them for their own ends, then toss them aside like garbage when they become a liability.

[TheTalon]

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;42954109]I wonder why big corporates always find the need to step all over their sweatshop workers and even deny them their just dues in the form of compensation.

Goes to show that at one stage, all have-nots are considered fair game by those at the apex of society, who manipulate them for their own ends, then toss them aside like garbage when they become a liability.[/QUOTE]

Because the world (USA Especially) runs on greed. Nothing in our country is done unless money is given to those that are doing. They should just replace the stars on our flag with dollar signs

[ewitwins]

Besides the major companies, I feel like the general public mindset is starting to shift away from the whole "out of sight, out of mind" mentality.

I've been doing some volunteering lately with an organization that sends money and supplies to the Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, and we've seen an absolutely [b]profound[/b] amount of giving. People in my experience tend to look at companies without a generous charity streak with disdain, and prefer not to buy their products.

I've got at least a little bit of hope, and I personally tend to believe that my generation is far better about the following: The environment, humanitarianism, and globalism/technology. We just have to kick the previous generation's mentality to the curb and roll forward.

[GiGaBiTe]

Walmart? Help one of their suppliers? LEL.

Walmart is less like a supermarket chain and more like a giant tech company. They endlessly beat up their vendors on price to the point where the vendor sometimes actually loses money selling in their stores. Most vendors usually put up with the shit treatment because they'd lose a huge consumer base otherwise that wouldn't know about their product.