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Will this change where you buy your clothes
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:31 |
Hundreds of garment workers employed in factories that supplied high-street shops in the west, including Primark, the discount clothing store, are feared dead after an eight-storey building collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on Wednesday. |
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Sharron | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:39 |
Is better labelling the answer? |
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Kay???? | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:40 |
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Merlin | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:44 |
That Sharon is a good Idea,perhaps the Governments of the Countries concerned should ensure that the factories are built to the proper standards before manufacturing begins. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:53 |
It appears that Primark is at loggerheads with campaigning organisations over signing up to an action plan that will prevent building collapses in Bangladesh in the wake of this week's disaster at a factory in Dhaka. |
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terryj | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:58 |
never shopped in primark new look etc always work to the principle |
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Rambling | Report | 27 Apr 2013 13:59 |
Sorry, have deleted my thread as I didn't realise this one was here :-) |
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Kay???? | Report | 27 Apr 2013 14:03 |
Primark have enough profits to build their own facorty there,that meets with UK factroy acts and strict safety rules and know it would have a good high standard of H&S,,,,,,,it could be built at ground level and perhaps empoly more workers..... |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 27 Apr 2013 14:05 |
My apologies RamblingRose we seemed to have posted our threads at about the same time, saw yours and I am glad I checked it, as I was about to delete mine, thanks <3 |
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Mayfield | Report | 27 Apr 2013 14:10 |
The sad fact is that if you paid the workers more and improved their conditions, with the costs of shipping they would become uneconomic. Then they would loose the pitiful income they get now. |
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Rambling | Report | 27 Apr 2013 14:20 |
:-) OFITG |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 27 Apr 2013 14:22 |
Profit is the ultimate measure of all corporate decisions. It takes precedence over community well-being, worker health, public health, peace, environmental preservation or national security. Corporations will even find ways to trade with countries considered ro be national enemies when public policy abhors it. The profit imperative and the growth imperative are the most fundamental corporate drives; together they represent the corporation's instinct to live. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 27 Apr 2013 16:23 |
I seem to half remember a film about the cotton industry, probably in Lancashire where the owner installed too much machinery in a mill, and The building collapsed in similar circumstances, but the film was likely a fictional story....... |
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LollyWithSprinklez | Report | 27 Apr 2013 17:18 |
I have to agree with Sharron on the labeling issue, with so many products "finished" in EU countries it is impossible to ascertain were they have originated from!! |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 27 Apr 2013 17:43 |
Will the building collapse stop me from buying cheap clothes? |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Apr 2013 20:06 |
It's not just Primark, and it's not just India. |
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JustJohn | Report | 27 Apr 2013 20:14 |
Terrible but we all want clothes as cheap as possible. And we cannot expect Primark and Tesco to check factory safety all those miles away. |
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Wend | Report | 27 Apr 2013 21:01 |
Why can't we expect Primark, Tesco and others to check factory safety? The expense involved would be a drop in the ocean for them. Very much in their interests too, I would have thought. |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 27 Apr 2013 21:15 |
I wasn't aware there even was a truly British car any more. |
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Kay???? | Report | 27 Apr 2013 21:46 |
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