Let's be clear: The Bangladesh government is complicit in the Rana Plaza tragedy

[cali]

yeah, they finally, after years of horrors and deaths, of people working for less than $40 a month, arrested some people in the garment industry. What you need to know is that the garment industry owners have huge influence within the government.

No Bangladeshi organization that works for safety and rights for garment industry workers is giving kudos to the gov't. No international organization is either.

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"Successive Bangladeshi governments have paid lip service to worker safety but in reality it is only the factory owners who have the ear of policymakers," Brad Adams, the Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. "How many factory tragedies will it take before the Bangladeshi government ends its cozy relationship with powerful company owners and prioritizes worker safety?"

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http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Owner+collapsed+Bangladesh+factory+sits+entrenched+intersection/8306254/story.html
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/25/bangladesh-tragedy-shows-urgency-worker-protections

Yes, they made arrests because it was politically expedient to do so as the world watched the horrors of Rana Plaza, but fuck, people, congratulating the gov't for this is nuts.

People trying to use the arrests to "prove" that Bangladesh cares more about worker safety than the U.S. are waay off base. And no, for fuck's sake, this is not about how great U.S. worker safety is- but this is apples and.... olives.

Edited to change op title and add link to HRW report

[cali]

1. kick to counter disgraceful misinformation of the worst fucking kind.

[jollyreaper2112]

2. Yup

Same as with Texas, only difference is after the disaster, those dishonest Bangladeshis don't stay bought! Them texan politicians know which side their bread is buttered on.

[Fumesucker]

3. Are you ever going to apologize for blaming the woman whose child was shot in the face?