Made in Bangladesh | Fault Lines
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2013
- Fault Lines traces Bangladesh’s garment supply chain and asks if US retailers know where their clothes are being made.
Following two deadly factory disasters, Fault Lines traces Bangladesh’s garment supply chain to investigate whether U.S. retailers, like Walmart, know where their clothes are being made.
In November 2012, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed at least 112 people. Walmart’s Faded Glory brand shorts were among the clothing found in the charred remains. Walmart blamed its supplier, saying the order had been subcontracted to Tazreen without its authorization.
Using internal documents, Fault Lines investigates whether Walmart has lost control of its supply chain in Bangladesh and uncovers what some call an “open secret”-that corporations deliberately turn a blind eye to the practice of subcontracting, with damaging results.
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These documentaries deserve much more views.
I hope the people who spoke for these interviews were protected somehow and didn't receive backlash for speaking up, especially the children. Seems dangerous to show their faces and names in an industry that already doesn't respect them as humans
they can afford hugh jackman, yet decent wages arent possible.
In another documentary about this fire, someone was talking about how the workers wanted Walmart to increase their wages from .18 to .38 an hour. And then the executive at the start of the film is bragging about how Walmart's profits are half a trillion dollars. These people are truly evil. I haven't shopped there on a regular basis for many years. I can't bring myself to give them my money. I must admit I have caved in and made the occasional purchase. The memory of this film will put a stop to even the small purchases I now make there. They will not see one more penny of my money.
W. Russell thank you!
I call 'em the Evil Empire and I try to avoid them like the plague.
I have decided not to buy any clothes from Walmart anymore! These big business people are truly evil.
Good thing that I never buy clothes from Wal Mart, Old Navy nor Gap.
Keep the Fault Lines coming! Great journalism
Hugh Jackman shilling for Walmart? What a chump...
He is indeed repugnant.
Great job, Fault Lines...have posted this on my RMG ACTion group FB page (where we post news/articles/proposals for reform in the ready made garments sector in Bangladesh). Keep up the great job!
Not available in my country...seems they are now censoring what we are able to watch here in USA
use proxy and Variable IP :) people need to watch what happens here...
I can't believe a country in this day & age has such low standards, such poor working conditions & such low wages. I can't believe that Bangladesh doesn't expect a company to ensure the safety of it's workers. Sure, we can all blame "Wal Mart" one single corporation, but every company is doing this. Crazy. I'd rather buy made in Canada or made in America products, but they exist less & less.
Thanks to Al-Jazeera and reporter for this hart touching fault line episode.
The fault lies with the government of Bangladesh, which allows such practices, and not the people themselves.
While the Bangladeshi government is for sure worth blaming, the country began on unequal footing in the world market. Needing to find an identity for itself, Bangladesh faced the free market and entered the race to the bottom among post-colonial Asian countries trying to compete for big corporate contracts. In that case I would more so blame international capitalist institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO for forcing countries through debt-contract stipulations (countries are in debt to IMF and World Bank) to enter the free market without substantial enough domestic economies to support any global position besides the lowest link on the supply chain. Same problem in much of Africa too! It is reallllllllyyy sad and I wish it was as easy as just blame the Bangladeshi government :^(
There is no doubt in my mind that Walmart has a platoon of lawyers, and will never admit ANY culpability related to outsourced production! :(
Blame is shared by all involved. Greed of subs. Failure to enforce local building codes. Employees on holiday not returning to work. Thw list goes on. Placing all blame on Walmart is a knee jerk reaction. Plus they have the deepest pockets.
Thanks Al-Jazeera to make such nice report, maybe that's why "Walmart" provided $50 million Dollar to improve safety and security in Garments factory in Bangladesh.
Thanks Again Aljazeera.. :)
Great reporting.
Eerily similar to the Triangle factory fire in New York in the early 20th century.
As a native Upper West Sider, I say: you betcha! : {
I think just preventing child labor is not helpful for people in Bangladesh. If Old Navy, GAP, Walmart hire any child labor, put heavy levies such as mandatory send those kids in school in the morning, supply foods, then have let those kids work for 4 hours or limited hours. Just taking out of job, I think some kids may suffer because of it may be their income is depended on for maintain their life. So if kids willing to work for some reason, just criticize of child labor is not good enough for these kids.
Good Report, tyvm
Why is Bangladesh not being held accountable. They should engage in stopping child labor.
That's a problem for them. Walmart is an outsider from the US taking advantage. That says they're as dirty as it gets.
Half a trillion, I think they can cough up a few million to compensate these people. Disgusting.
how much you think hugh jackman n tom cruise got paid?
Thanks for such a nice report!
Honorable emptor /buyer, pls make sure about safety & salary of our this active & industrious poor people.
Best regards.
At the end only innocent people are loosing, both the worker and the consumer !!!
sure this people will be trap if fire occurs in their factory, if you put bars on your windows and provide no fire exits in your facilities, its just simple logic. and this factory owners are so greedy.
Esto va a quedar marcado en mi vida, yo les pagaria el doble o el triple y los pondria en condiciones de trabajar, asi como rutas de escape para incendios entre otras cosas, al menos eso pueden hacer
What do you want Walmart to do they want to save a dollar just like the consumer. if they got there stuff made in more expensive factories , then they would raise the price and we won't shop there. So just like us they go to the cheapest supplier even if it means things are not perfect. If anything we all are to blame for shopping at these stores and making them so rich.
Andrew Bedingfield well you the consumer made the choice to shop there and if you ever shopped at any most american retail stores you are also part of the problem. If you don't like it don't shop there its that simple but also remember if it was not for the apples and walmarts of the world most these poor people would never have a job. Also big difference from slavery being forced to do a job and not get paid to willingly applying for a job for low wages because you got to support your family
That's why American Called 3B's.....
Shame on "Walmart"....
sorry for
as a bengoli, my own government failed their process of overlooking inspection and the people safety, and let this company come and failed the hard working people, people in power have blood/money in their hand not the company's.
RIP Bangladesh
A Qatari media outlet lecturing us on working conditions? Yeah ok.
Acknowledge defeat or jail.
The highly praised webment computer training center in bangladesh
I LIKE BANGLADESH 🇧🇩 ITS GOOD 😊 Country
Then allow me to introduce you to....Monsanto!
i was here some
Take a bow Al Jazeera....
Never mind!! Come here leader are mad here. you can make money the way you like most too & (Except third world) enjoy da freedom of Globalization...
I NEVER BUY CLOTHES MADE BY GAP !!
two words birth control would solve a majority of their problems,in other words dont have them if you cant feed them
+muftare true, but they can't afford it...
muftare says:
"two words birth control would solve a majority of their problems,in other words dont have them if you cant feed them"
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Did you make that comment knowing that would cause another different kind of crisis?
www.ibtimes.com/japan-population-crisis-after-massive-yearly-drop-rate-decline-fastest-record-2391147
You don't need to advertise your stupidity.
There are plenty of them out there already
It appears an easy solution but you have to consider other variables such as ignorance, lack of education since most individuals start working at the age of 12, and their wages cant afford a form of birth control. I mean, getting paid as low as 18 cents an hour.
I never shop at Wal Marde, never did, never will!!!
I don't get this documentary, true that the Bangladeshi factory produced for Wal-Mart and others. But how is Wal-Mart or any of the factory's clients supposed to be held accountable? They and the factory are different companies and have nothing to do with each other aside from buying and selling between themselves. Supposed you go to a local store to buy ice cream, and you like their ice cream so you keep buying them. Then a month later some poor schmuck working in the ice cream store got killed operating the machine (however that works), should you be held accountable for that? Or should the owner of the store be the one held to account? The answer should be obvious.
I disagree - it is the price that the factory must make these garments at that does not allow for proper safety and regulations. Where can you get workers for 35 dollars a month. That is disgraceful it is the greed for use in the west that puts these actions in line...
Cliver McGyver how can you say that it is the greed in the west. I watched this fifth estate made in bangledash and i had my mouth open the whole time i couldnt believe ....why hadnt i heard this....i did about the ones in china but same difference..The guy that bought the building for 8000 say and is paid 6 million for an order and pays his workers 10,000 dollars.......the west isnt the ones that pays the wage...walmart as much as i think they are disgusting as well as joe fresh......it is the pathetic person who bought the building who takes the orders..or however inwhich order that goes..the west gets a cheap contract......so much goes to one guy he divides it up to where each dollar goes....not the west and the guy in Bangledash doing that is rich unlike the workers and could make the buildings safe for his workers and chooses not to.......... My heart goes out to all the people affected by the garment industries.....and the chocolate industry and so on and so on..........
wtf was that all about?? wal marde!!! marde ... is shit in french!! okay! marde marde marde!! ...
Just one question if Walmart decided close everything in Bangladesh, who is going to give work for those ladies? I know the payment it’s horrible, but I am pretty sure it’s a work the ladies fight for it.
Capitalism at its finest !!
Not true according to me.
Remember the companies that brought the slaves from Africa? Even in these days, they were "Companies"!