Rana Plaza [Bangladesh] one year later: Companies must pay up!

[ckaihatsu]

Rana Plaza one year later: Companies must pay up!


Survivors and victims families have suffered enough. Pay up now!


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In another seven weeks, we mark the first anniversary of the building collapse at Rana Plaza, in Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in one of the worst industrial accidents in history.

As you may know, this was followed up by a ground-breaking agreement signed by global unions, local unions in Bangladesh, employers, major clothing brands, the International Labor Organization, the Bangladeshi government and others.

In addition to trying to ensure that the tragedy doesn't repeat itself, the employers also agreed to help compensate the injured and the families of those killed.

As the Clean Clothes Campaign put it, "The survivors and victims families have suffered enough and should not have to relive that horrible day without being secure that their financial losses at least are covered. They suffered terrible injuries, lost husbands and wives, children and parents, brothers and sisters; and will bear the physical and emotional scars for life. This can never be compensated for, but they can and should be compensated for loss of income and medical costs before the anniversary."

But among those companies which have not made public donations to the fund are these:

Adler Modemrkte, Auchan, Ascena Retail, Benetton, C&A, Carrefour, Cato Fashions, Children's Place, Grabalok, Gueldenpfennig, Kids for Fashion, KiK, LPP, Manifattura Corona, Matalan, NKD, Premier Clothing, Primark, PWT, Walmart and Yes Zee.

IndustriALL, UNI Global Union and the Clean Clothes Campaign have launched an online campaign (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=90d456b98e&e=4e93ef2fad) hosted by LabourStart to pressure those companies to pay compensation now.

Please sign up and send your message. (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=c490bfa559&e=4e93ef2fad) And please spread the word about this very important campaign.

Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Peru, the government is attempting to privatize the country's water supply -- over the objections of citizens and the country's trade union movement. Those unions and their global union federation PSI have launched an online campaign (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=dbb5644b73&e=4e93ef2fad) demanding that Peru stop this privatization now. Please support the campaign and spread the word.

Thank you very much!



Eric Lee
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[cyu]

http://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/1zkacq/the_memorial_for_the_victims_of_the_rana_plaza/

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[Sea]

Six new ckaihatsu threads, all posted in a week's time. Six potentially good threads pushed off the board.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/samsung-factory-riot-t186367/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/trimet-public-transit-t186772/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/college-sports-labor-t186746/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/s-korean-union-t185971/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/all-unions-europe-t186424/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/11-jobs-honest-t186581/index.html

Some of those were on their way to being interesting. Some things never change. Sayonara, Worker's Struggles. Farewell, Ongoing Struggles.

I have some solutions, Chris:

1. If your threads generate no replies within 2 days, delete them.
2. Do not post any thread that does not have at least a sentence or two of your own commentary.
3. Create one single ckaihatsu thread and post your e-mails only in that thread. Perhaps it can be stickied, or:
4. Create an RSS feed or Twitter account and link to it in your signature. Post your e-mails there and refrain from posting them on this board.

A lot of your threads (for instance http://www.revleft.com/vb/sign-rehire-christine-t187359/index.html) are pointless drivel and you're awfully selfish / chauvinistic if you think that's what leftists should be prioritizing. You're pushing distraction, which is counter-revolutionary to say the least. Your naive threads almost exclusively amount to begging companies, governments and organizations for grievances. None of it has anything to do with revolutionsism or direct action. This board is for revolutionists (like meeeee) and if you believed in the methods advocated in your own posts you would probably be restricted. That alone speaks volumes to the low quality of the content of your threads, which you just copy and paste and say nothing about anyway. Get with the program and stop spamming. Create your own content and I'll read it and we can all discuss it. If you're going to directly copy and paste shit from your inbox (which you totally do, you can't even be fucked to fix the formatting or remove your own email address from the thread) with out saying so much as a word about it then please use some higher-quality sources. Access-restricted articles, journals and research papers would be a good place to start.

[Decolonize The Left]

The solution is now in play. I have created a NEWSFEED for International Union Struggles to accompany the unused US union struggle NEWSFEED. Both are stickied at the top of this forum. All articles pertaining to union news are to go there. If an article generates a lot of attention/discussion, I'll split the whole thing into its own thread and put that in this main forum.

Obviously if the content is your own then you can post it in the main forum but reposting news items from other sources belongs in the Newsfeed threads.

- Your local mod.