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How To Avoid Sweatshops In Bangladesh'S Clothing Industry?

2013/9/4 8:55:00 30

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as the saying goes, disaster is an opportunity that can not be wasted. Regretfully, some western groups used the tragic events of Bangladesh's "a href=" //m.pmae.cn "clothing manufacturing industry < /a" recently, which led their governments and some global retail brands to take some measures that were only beneficial to these western groups, and tried to disguise them as something beneficial to Bangladesh and its workers. These western groups also diverted attention to a more responsive response to Bangladesh. 
P therefore, consumers blame the unsafe working conditions of Bangladesh factories for companies that buy "cheap" and often very fashionable clothes, because low prices can lead to shrinking safety measures. The European Union (EU) proposes that future trade agreements in Europe should give health and safety considerations a "more prominent position". Under the pressure of trade unions, the United States has suspended the treatment of Generalized System of Preferences (WTO Generalized), which has resumed after Bangladesh improves factory safety standards and raises workers' wages. 
 in response to the call for elimination of the "high external costs of cheap goods" and the signing and protest of thousands of people in social media, many European brands have agreed to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, which is responsible for the security holes in the garment factories owned and managed by Bangladesh. 
 but for security experts, this kind of agreement defiance of the fact that maintaining safety standards is entirely the responsibility of factory managers and bosses. You know, a fire building has a fire exit, but it has been sealed by the management. These managers are also Bangladeshi. The reason why most American brands refuse to sign these agreements correctly (these agreements require signatories to take legal responsibilities when factories are having problems) is here. 
 by buying the "a href=" //m.pmae.cn "clothing" /a from these factories in Bangladesh, Western brands have actually led to one of the most obvious improvements in the living conditions of Bangladesh workers. Just as in China, export activities in the past decades have led to a shortage of labour force, resulting in a rapid improvement in wages and working conditions. The Bangladesh apparel industry has provided 4 million jobs, mostly to women, and has provided growth momentum for a country that has yet to achieve full liberalization. The same reforms prompted India to achieve spanformation after 1991. 
 by impressing pressure on Bangladesh suppliers and requiring them to increase their wages under conditions that are not ripe, ILO will deprive Bangladesh of its low cost advantage, resulting in the loss of competitiveness of Bangladesh's products in the global market. Workers Rights Consortium, which has been trying to influence the aftermath of Bangladesh's tragedy, argues that some profits can simply be spanlated into higher wages. This is, of course, a fallacy, because the competition in the global garment industry is fierce, and there is no extra income that can be converted to higher wages. 
 there is no correlation between unionization and security. In the past forty years, the trade union coverage in the United States has dropped to a very low level, but the fire in industrial production has been very rare. Although there is no real Union, Vietnam and China's a href= "//m.pmae.cn/news/index_c.asp" > clothing industry < /a > seldom fire. In addition, the idea that trade union officials will become safety experts is impractical. 
Similarly, these western brands who are guilty of their responsibility for safety in Bangladesh factories, which are guilty of guilt, will not quietly shift their production to a more perfect corporate governance system, P. Because the possibility of future fires cannot be ruled out, the possibility of being compromised is still real. Why risk it? In fact, Disney has indicated that it will move out of Bangladesh. Therefore, from these points of view, Bangladesh and its a href= "//m.pmae.cn/news/" > garment workers < /a > will suffer losses. 
A reasonable way to improve the safety of Bangladesh factories is not to make western brands a scapegoat, but to admit that accidents should be blamed on factory owners who are insensitive and ignore safety problems. P 
 if Western governments are to play a useful role in factory safety, what they need to do is to use the aid agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) to provide technical experts for all factories in Bangladesh and other countries. All the other measures are not only meaningless, but will also bring endless damage.