http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/gap-walmart-refuses-to-sign-protection-pact-for-factory-workers/
I used to like Gap jeans; used to shop at their stores on a regular basis. Their advertising is charming and ubiquitous (who can resist those Baby Gap photographs?), their brand of simple, classic, American casuals is well known throughout the world. Good company, right?
You decide: Gap just joined the ranks of clothing retailers who refuse to sign the Joint Memorandum of Understanding on Fire Building and Safety, written in response to the horrifying Rana Plaza factory collapse on May 4th and the Tazreen Fashion factory fire in November 2012 (as well as other factory tragedies). Both these major events were in Dhaka, Bangladesh and together these tragedies killed almost 1,500 factory workers toiling for a wide variety of global companies in buildings that were poorly maintained and dangerously ignored.American business are they mirroring this employer attitude toward American workers, see what hapopens when right wing sets about busting unions the only thing between you and unscrupulous bosses.
But Gap, the largest retailer in the U.S. and second largest in the world, a company that employs thousands of workers in Third World countries (including Dhaka, Bangladesh) who earn the lowest minimum wage in the world at $37.00 a month, doesn’t want to sign that binding agreement. Guess who else doesn’t? Yep… Walmart. Good, old American Gap has aligned with one of the most thoughtless, dispassionate companies in the world, proving while its brand may be “for every generation,” it isn’t necessarily for the workers pounding out its product.not enough to work people for nothing but they've got to get thayt last drop of blood by denying safe workplace conditions, are these American corp. idols cause they seem to be aiming at the same target.
