A fire erupted at a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka on Thursday morning, sending employees fleeing in terror and raising more questions about safety conditions in Bangladesh less than two months after the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building claimed more than 1,100 lives. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/world/asia/another-garment-factory-scare-in-bangladesh.html?ref=world
Labor activists who rushed to the burning factory said they had found clothing labels for Dickies, the name brand of the Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company, a storied American business that describes itself as the world’s largest work-wear manufacturer.
“If these factories do not improve their shortcomings within a month, we won’t renew their fire licenses,”
International labor rights groups say that hundreds of workers have died in fires in Bangladeshi factories during the past decade.
The Rana Plaza building collapsed in April, killing 1,129 people, in what is considered the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry. Rana Plaza had been shoddily built, atop filled wetlands, yet workers had been ordered inside even after an engineer had examined cracks in the structure and warned the building was unsafe.