Sentences with phrase «garment factory collapsed»

Four years ago, when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 employees, it was extremely difficult to find out which companies sourced their apparel from that specific factory — a building that employees knew was unsafe.

DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

April's garment factory collapse is waking the world up to the injustices suffered by Bangladeshi workers.

However, as noted in a New York Times article, the recent garment factory collapse in Bengladesh has put a spotlight on the often miserable and downright dangerous working conditions that are far too common in overseas manufacturing facilities.

You've probably heard the stories: a garment factory collapses, killing over 800 people.

Earlier this month, a class action was launched against Loblaw's Joe Fresh clothing maker for $ 2 billion for its alleged responsibility in the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh.

Not exact matches

Picture of Joe Fresh garment found at site of Bangladesh factory collapse.

The 8 - story building that collapsed housed a number of garment factories, a shopping mall, and a bank.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.

It's a nice piece of PR, especially following April's horrific factory collapse in Dhaka that killed more than 1,100 people and soured many on the Bangladeshi garment trade.

Like others around the world, Canadians were horrified when they saw pictures last April of the collapse of the Bangladeshi garment factory, which killed close to 1,200 people.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

You may or may not remember me writing about this week last year, but Fashion Revolution was started after the tragedy of the Rana Plaza complex collapse disaster in 2013 where over 1,110 garment factory workers were killed.

Other than that, it took the collapse of a garment factory home to the products of Primark, for me to finally embark upon my ethical fashion journey.

This week, another garment factory building outside Dhaka collapsed after cracks were discovered in the concrete walls.