The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) mourns the loss of life in yet another factory fire in Bangladesh and is calling on the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), Loblaw and all other companies that have been using the factory to provide just compensation to the victims and work through the Accord on Fire and Building Safety program to ensure such tragedies do not happen in the future.

Please sign the online petition to HBC initiated by the campaign network SumOfUs.

Also, CBC Fifth Estate to air report on Canadian retailer links to Bangladeshi sweatshops
Tonight (Friday, October 11) at 9:00 pm) the CBC television program Fifth Estate is airing an investigative report on worker rights abuses in Bangladeshi garment factories producing for Canadian retailers. We hope you will watch the program, and then take action.

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