Here's What Happens When a Bangladeshi Garment Employee Asks for Safe Working Conditions link added

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/04/27/exclusive-true-cost-clip

In an exclusive clip from the documentary ‘The True Cost,’ a retail industry laborer demands an end to dangerous factory practices.

Video@ link.

When the average customer heads to the store to purchase a new outfit, they might check the price tag of a t-shirt or pair of jeans. But a new documentary The True Cost reveals that the true value of an item comes from the human and environmental costs to make it.

In this exclusive clip from the film, we meet Shima Akhter, a 23-year-old woman struggling to make ends meet. She is one of almost 4 million garment workers in Bangladesh and earns less than three dollars a day making clothes in a dangerous facility.

FULL story at link.

[csziggy]

1. This shows why unions are needed - and what this country will return to

Last edited Mon Apr 27, 2015, 04:01 PM - Edit history (1)

If we don't keep our unions strong. I hope the women in this film are able to retain their union and can use it to make their lives and the lives of other workers better.

Thanks for adding the link!