Amy Goodman
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Confronting Walmart, the Gap on Factory Safety: Should Workers Die to Protect Firms From Lawsuits?
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June 11, 2013
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as posted by the channelIn the aftermath of the Dhaka building collapse that killed over 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers in April, the retail giants Walmart and the Gap have refused to sign on to an industry-wide agreement establishing binding safety standards at factories producing their goods. Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium, which investigates working conditions in factories around the world, takes on Walmart and the Gap's publicly stated reasons for rejecting the safety standards.
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