A survivor of Tazreen Fashions fire, Sumi Abedin, is going to the USA this week to urge companies whose goods were being made in the factory to compensate the victims.
She will join with the labour-rights activists and union groups and stage demonstration in front of the corporate headquarters of companies including Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Walt Disney Co, reports The Wall Street Journal.
According to the report, the effort is a part of a growing campaign by labour-rights activists to make public what they say are poor working conditions at overseas factories producing clothing for US consumers.
Labour groups say that the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and the Bangladesh government have begun paying some of the Tazreen workers and their families but that companies haven’t compensated workers and families for their losses.
Although products made for Wal-Mart were found at the scene of the fire, the company said its suppliers were not authorised to produce clothing there.
The trip of Sumi is being paid for, in part, by union groups, including Change to Win, a coalition of unions and their members, and Making Change at Walmart, a group funded by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, The Wall Street Journal said.
The night of the Tazreen fire on November 24 last year, Sumi jumped from a fourth-floor window when fire broke out which killed 112 workers.
-With New Age input
