Yet another of a million examples of global corporate capitalism and the associated government corruption and lack of effective unionization.

Interesting how the different news services chose to approach the gender issue (BBC spoke of it being mostly men, who prefered the night shift; CBC noted that there were about 300 people on that night, "many of them women".)

This is also how they ended the article:

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Garment workers regularly die in industrial accidents – often from fires – and safety standards remain low by international standards.

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Somewhere lurking about is Oliver Cromwell who will tell us how much better off these people were that someone gave them a sweatshop job.

“Clearly, the factory owners should be arrested and prosecuted. But the real villains are the European retailers who have sourced from that factory for a number of years. All of them claim to have codes of conduct which cover wages and working conditions including hours of work and health and safety. Yet none seem to have detected the inherent danger in the factory and all seem to have turned a blind eye to the abuse of workers there, including excessive hours of work and night work, all against Bangladesh’s inadequate labour law and against international labour standards.
“The retailers involved include top names from many European countries. They include Zara, which is part of Spanish fashion distributor Inditex, Karstadt Quelle of Germany, Carrefour of France and Cotton Group of Belgium." (...)