IndustriALL tells us,
"Over 40 market leading clothing brands have signed the legally binding Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh with IndustriALL Global Union and Uni Global Union ... The new Accord is an historic victory and will immediately cover over 1,000 Bangladeshi garment factories, certainly a critical mass to be a game-changer. The LabourStart campaign was one of the important components in a powerful alliance of trade unions and leading NGOs which worked together to achieve this success. Unprecedented global anger and pressure built in the days after the Rana Plaza disaster and leading up to the 15 May deadline, and that pressure now continues on Gap, Walmart and other companies that disappointingly failed to commit. Work now begins on the implementation phase of the Accord along with two other areas of action, pushing for an ILO-compliant labour law reform in Bangladesh to guarantee core trade union rights, and on raising the minimum wage to match the living wage by 2015. Workers everywhere will also now seek to expand this historic Accord to other countries and to other industrial sectors."
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