Ten years after the worst industrial accident in the garment industry’s history, labor leaders say much has been done to improve conditions. But much more remains to be done.
“We are not dying [by the] hundreds like 2013,” said Kalpona Akter, an activist and labor organizer from Bangladesh. “We still have a long way to go.”
On April 24, 2013, garment workers in the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, noticed cracks in the building’s walls. Under pressure to fill orders for hundreds of clothing retailers, supervisors said there was no reason to worry and to get to work.
More than 1,130 garment workers were killed when Rana Plaza collapsed later that day. Another 2,500 were injured….