Considering how lightly some people react to the deaths of these workers, let?s remember that 1.147 people died in Bangladesh - that is a third of the people that died on 9/11- The magnitude of the tragedy is inmense.
Those workers in Bangladesh were force back into the factory under death threats from the owners, they knew the building could collapse at any moment, and still had to walk back into the production lines, what beautiful life when you are being forced back into a certain death in the name of a 6,00$ price tag on a pair of Jeans in Walmart.
You have to be a big fucking hypocrite to say that there is nothing you can do about it, those deaths could have been easily avoided if companies like VF Corp, Walmart and others decided to sign a basic agreement that guarantee their workers better working conditions, factory supervision and safety plans implemented, instead they refused simply because is cheaper no to and cheap production costs keep shareholders happy, Capitalism at it is finest.
This tragedy should have been the breaking point to help them change their mind, but apparently, a thousand lives is a cost they can digest if the profits are big enough, just a reminder that the capital has simpathy for no one.
The business practices of the VF Corp are the business practices of Vans, no matter how much money they spend on marketing, is the same monster with the same criminal strategy.
My personal stand as part of this society, an also part of the problem as a consumer is to boycott these companies and expose their criminal behavior as much as i can, eventually they will have to step back, they might not care much about lives but if there is something they can not tolerate is a bad rep.
To whoever made this threat, thanks for addressing it, and excuse my broken english.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society Karl Marx