RANA PLAZA DISASTER HAS PROMPTED SERIOUS SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS – BUT MUCH WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE, MEETING HEARS
May 1st, 2017
Just a little over four years after the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2013, key participants in the global garment supply chain met in New York City to assess progress in protecting garment worker safety. They also brainstormed on steps to ensure future progress.
This May 3 meeting, part of Cornell University's New Conversations Project, brought together academics, labour activists and executives of producing, trading and retail companies for a roundtable discussion. It focused in part on the ...
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