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One Triangle Shirtwaist fire fucking well should have been one too many.
The part that scares me? I couldn't remember the name 'Triangle Shirtwaist'—brainfarts, what can you do—so I Googled, and the first hits were this same damn thing happening in Pakistan a couple months ago. Twice. I never heard about either instance. I guess no one who did hear cared enough to make sure other people heard too.
The Bangladesh factory was making clothes for Walmart. The Wiki article on the Pakistan fires says the garment factory was making jeans for Europe and the US. Can't find where the shoe factory was making shoes for, but, you know, it was probably the US. And I'm betting that the things that made those factories deathtraps and that made people willing to work in them anyway are systematic problems.
I have created a petition on petitions.whitehouse.gov with the goal of enforcing US worker-safety and minimum wage standards on suppliers of goods and their pieces-parts to US markets. The pre-shortened URL is http://wh.gov/IIJ5.
The part that scares me? I couldn't remember the name 'Triangle Shirtwaist'—brainfarts, what can you do—so I Googled, and the first hits were this same damn thing happening in Pakistan a couple months ago. Twice. I never heard about either instance. I guess no one who did hear cared enough to make sure other people heard too.
The Bangladesh factory was making clothes for Walmart. The Wiki article on the Pakistan fires says the garment factory was making jeans for Europe and the US. Can't find where the shoe factory was making shoes for, but, you know, it was probably the US. And I'm betting that the things that made those factories deathtraps and that made people willing to work in them anyway are systematic problems.
I have created a petition on petitions.whitehouse.gov with the goal of enforcing US worker-safety and minimum wage standards on suppliers of goods and their pieces-parts to US markets. The pre-shortened URL is http://wh.gov/IIJ5.