Bangladeshi workers go on hunger strike

January 4th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The protest comes after 112 workers lost their lives in a devastating fire that burned down the Tazreen garment factory in Savar, about 24 km northwest of the capital, last November.

The protesters are calling on the government to immediately arrest the factory manager, whom they blame for the deadly incident. The Tazreen factory made clothing for western retailers including Walmart, C&A and The Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

“We also demand for the dead workers and injured workers better compensation… . Also we are demanding the proper treatment of the injured workers,” urged Amirul Haq Amin, the president of the National Garment Workers Federation.

Two days after the November fire, Walmart said in a statement that it had stopped authorizing production at Tazreen and that despite that move, a single supplier, later identified as Success Apparel, had “subcontracted work to this factory without authorization and in direct violation of our policies.”

But documents found by worker activists in the remains of the burned-down facility showed that a subcontractor for an additional Walmart supplier, International Intimates, was having women’s robes and nightgowns made at the factory for Walmart’s winter season.

The documents also indicated that the factory was also making women’s nightwear for Sears, an American multinational department store.

Bangladesh is the world’s second largest exporter of ready-made clothes.

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