American retail brands come up with their own safety plan for textile subcontractors in Bangladesh

Walmart, Gap and a few other companies have decided to design their own program to monitor their subcontractors in Bangladesh.  Indeed, they’ve refused to sign the global agreement on building safety ratified by 42 mostly European groups with the IndustriAll and UNI Global unions after the collapse, on April 24, of a building near Dacca which killed over 1,100 people subcontracting for big textile and retail groups.  (Ref.  130364)