India now has it's own Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, all because of 'the bottom line'.

[DainBramaged]

A raging fire tore through a huge Bangladeshi garment factory that makes clothes for Western shops including Gap, killing at least 22 workers and injuring 100 more.

Many of the dead were killed after they jumped from the building in a desperate attempt to escape the inferno, police and witnesses said, while workers said some exit doors were locked.

The multi-storey plant in the industrial hub of Ashulia, 25 kilometres (16 miles) north of the capital Dhaka, is owned by one of the country's largest exporters, Hameem Group.

"At least 22 people have been killed, and all of them died either jumping from the 10th floor of the building or while trying to climb down to escape the fire," Iqbal Bahar, Dhaka district police chief, told AFP.

"The fire has now been put out and we are searching the building to check if there are any more bodies," he said, adding that 43 of some 100 injured workers had been taken to nearby hospitals.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1442521/Bangladesh-factory-fire-kills-22

Some 14,000 workers are employed at the factory, said Sunil Kumar Sarkar, a senior official at the Hameem Group, who confirmed that the group produces clothes primarily for American brands including Gap and JC Penney.




:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Skittles]

1. there's always a price to be paid for cheap shit

:(

[DainBramaged]

3. I begrudge our jobs going overseas, but people shouldn't have to die making shit for us...

It's fucked up.

[Skittles]

7. they shouldn't be making shit for us

it's a way for greedy American companies to bypass safety / environmental regs

[DainBramaged]

12. The bottom line, report to the investors. It's criminal. The CEOs are as much to blame

for these deaths as the people who own the building, the person who did a shitty job installing the substandard electrical system, and the guy who overloaded the circuit to make more food.

[notesdev]

2. Gotta love outsourcing

This is why it's cheaper to outsource... you can treat people as chattel and no one says anything, if you're in some third-word piss hole.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Eerie in its similarity to the Triangle fire.

Hopefully something good will come from this atrocity.

[DainBramaged]

6. The workers have been protesting low wages, and this is hopefully a turning point

maybe the fuckers who run our companies will realize there is no cheap labor any more. EVERYBODY needs to survive.


Bring the jobs home.

[Arctic Dave]

10. +1

[Alameda]

18. Problem with the Triangle fire type stuations was they just outsourced

to countries with loose labor laws.

[eleny]

5. So they're about 100 years behind us on labor reform

kr

[Demeter]

9. In 5 Years, They Will Be 100 Years Ahead of Us

[eleny]

16. I hope so - I hope to see that kind of leap of progress in my lifetime

[Demeter]

17. ...Because We Will Have Reverted to Serfdom in the US

this country is in reverse gear.

[HEyHEY]

8. The locked doors are a common problem

The bosses want them all coming and going through one door so they can keep an eye on them all. It's sick. I really think it's time our governments refuse to allow imported goods from any factories that don't meet some kind of seal of approval and inspection showing they are up to code with North American standards.

[Kievan Rus]

11. Robber-barons care for nothing but themselves and their wallets

[GoCubsGo]

13. Bangladesh is not India.

It is its own country. The company involved is a Bangladeshi company. India has nothing to do with this. Just saying.

[DainBramaged]

14. Just saying, does it matter? 22 people died making cloths for the US

is Bangladesh not India, India not Pakistan, Pakistan not China?


People working for 25 cents a day to make our wash and dispose of clothes.


Thanks for just sayin.....

[GoCubsGo]

15. You're welcome.