NYT: As Firms Line Up on Factories, Wal-Mart Plans Solo Effort

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3. 14 more than Wal-Mart, add Macy's JCPenney, Kohl's, Sears/Kmart, Nordstrom's, & more, huge USA FAIL!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/bangladesh-factory-safety-accord_n_3286430.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular#slide=more298005

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Major European retailers -- for example, Marks & Spencer and Carrefour -- have joined the agreement. Others who've signed on include companies recently involved with factory disasters in Bangladesh, such as Swedish retailer H&M and Italian fashion house Benetton. A 2010 factory fire at a facility that made cardigans for H&M killed 21 people, and Bennetton had a supplier in the Rana Plaza factory that collapsed last month, killing more than 1,100 people.

PVH, parent to Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, signed the accord, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, which agreed just hours before the deadline. That leaves plenty of U.S. retailers absent from the agreement, according to the Worker Rights Consortium, an international labor monitoring group. However, some retailers, like Walmart, claim they are working on separate initiatives to improve conditions and workplace safety in Bangladesh.