The Worth of Life

As Big Corporations trample rights and protections in their greed for more profits, What's our value?

It's not only Bangladesh, some far off place, but it's coming to America in such places as the Texas Fertilizer Factory Explosion and the Framingham Compounding Pharmacy Deaths.

Human life is less important than Corporate Profits.

It doesn't matter until you're affected.

As Bangladesh Toll Hits 400, Calls Grow to Grant Workers the Same Protections as Labels They Make





Today’s global May Day actions include a march of thousands of workers in Bangladesh demanding workplace safety following last week’s factory collapse that left more than 400 dead and 150 missing. The collapse is now being described as the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry and marked Bangladesh’s third industrial accident in five months. The building’s owner has been arrested, and a Bangladeshi court has frozen the assets of the owners of the five garment factories that were inside. Most of the workers reportedly earned an average annual salary of $38 a month — roughly 21 cents an hour — to make apparel for a number of Western companies. We’re joined by leading labor rights activist Charlie Kernaghan, director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. "The companies, the corporations, they’re hiding behind these phony codes of conduct that are meaningless. They’re just paper. What the workers want are legal rights," Kernaghan says. "We need to stand up and just say, 'You can bring anything you want into the United States, but you're not bringing it in if it was made by children or the workers are denied their right to organize.’ The lift that would give to the Bangladeshi labor movement would be enormous."

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/1/as_bangladesh_toll_hits_400_calls

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