Dhaka, Bangladesh Factory Fire — Labor’s Top Stories of 2012

In a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were items from Walmart were manufactured, 117 workers were killed when a flash fire ignited inside the factory working where conditions were so poor that workers could not get out of the building because doors and gates were locked contributing to one of the most abusive and tragic violations of worker’s rights in recent history. To date, the fire is still being investigated and 3 managers have arrested for locking gates which prevented some worker’s from exiting the building.

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