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Big retailers back safety accord in Bangladesh

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:20:16 MDT

Big retailers back safety accord in Bangladesh

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 07:20PM MDT

New York • Some of the world’s largest retailers have agreed to a first-of-its-kind pact to improve safety at some of Bangladesh’s garment factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month. The move comes just days shy of a deadline imposed by workers’ rights groups that said they would hold street protests and otherwise increase pressure on clothing brands that did not sign the agreement by Wednesday. H&M, a trendy Swedish chain that’s the la...

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Search ends in Bangladesh; death toll put at 1,127

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:52:18 MDT

Search ends in Bangladesh; death toll put at 1,127

By JULHAS ALAM and FARID HOSSAIN The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 07:52PM MDT

Savar, Bangladesh • Several of the biggest Western retailers embraced a plan that would require them to pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh as the three-week search for victims of the worst garment-industry disaster in history ended Monday with the death toll at a staggering 1,127. Bangladesh’s government also agreed to allow garment workers to form unions without permission from factory owners. That decision came a day after it announced a plan to raise the minimum wage in the industry....

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Bangladesh collapse search over; death toll 1,127

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:48:02 MDT

Bangladesh collapse search over; death toll 1,127

By JULHAS ALAM and FARID HOSSAIN The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 09:48AM MDT

SAVAR, Bangladesh • Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building focused worldwide attention on the hazardous conditions in Bangladesh’s low-cost garment industry and strengthened pressure for reforms. On Monday, the government said it will begin allowing garment workers to form trade unio...

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Bangladesh factory collapse survivor rescued after 17 days

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:47:46 MDT

Bangladesh factory collapse survivor rescued after 17 days

By JULHAS ALAM The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 09:47AM MDT

SAVAR, Bangladesh • A seamstress buried for 17 days in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building in Bangladesh was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against the unimaginable horror of the more than 1,000 bodies recovered so far. Reshma Begum was in such good shape she was able to walk, according to one rescuer. She said she survived on dried food and bottled water. She was discovered near a Muslim prayer room in the basement of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, where crews ha...

Bangladesh building-collapse toll tops 600

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:53:17 MDT

Bangladesh building-collapse toll tops 600

By FARID HOSSAIN The Associated Press

Updated May 5, 2013 04:53PM MDT

DHAKA, Bangladesh • More than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday as the grim recovery work continued in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. Police said Sunday night that the death toll had reached 622. Well over 200 bodies have been recovered since Wednesday, when authorities said only 149 people had been listed as missing. The stench of decomposing bodies remains amid the broken concrete of the eight-s...