Bangladesh: over twenty leading fashion brands signed a new safety agreement with garment factories

On 29 June twenty-three leading ready-to-wear fashion brands together with the IndustriALL and Uni Global Union organizations signed a new safety agreement covering Bangladeshi garment factories.

Through . Published on 29 June 2017 Ă  16h54 - Update on 30 June 2017 Ă  15h03

The text of the agreement relies on the first agreement of this type that was signed in May 2013 in the aftermath of the Dhaka, Rana Plaza disaster where a factory collapsed causing more than 1,000 workers’ lives ad injuring more than 2,500 others.

Primark, H&M, Zara, just to mention a few. This new agreement only comes into effect when the initial agreement expires in May 2018.…

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