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RMG insiders in Bangladesh complain about the pressure to comply and argue that RMG factory owners are hampered by a shortage of space in their rental units. In spite of this the industry exports totaled $19 billion in 2011–2012. They expected export earnings to increase to $23 billion in 2012–2013. [94]
Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) is an autonomous government agency responsible for health and safety inspection in factories and industries in Bangladesh with its Inspection units RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) and Remediation Coordination Cell (RCC) and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prior to the creation of the Accord in 2013, the Bangladesh garment industry had a number of fires and building collapses within the district. In February 2010, a fire in the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory took the lives of 21, while another fire killed 29 more at the “That's It Sportswear” factory in December of the same year.
The location of Savar (red marker), the site of the building collapse, in relation to Dhaka. Photo of Rana Plaza taken one year before the collapse. Rana Plaza was built in 2006 and owned by Sohel Rana—allegedly a member of the local unit of Jubo League (the youth wing of Bangladesh Awami League, the political party in power).
Ha-Meem Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate in textile and garments sector. [1] [2] It owns 26 garments factories, [3] sweater factory, poly bag industry, label factory, jute mill, chemical formulation plant, tea estates, transport company, Channel 24 and Samakal, a widely circulated national daily newspaper.
The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, also known as "the Alliance" or AFBWS, is a group of 28 major global retailers formed to develop and launch the Bangladesh Worker Safety Initiative, a binding, five-year undertaking with the intent of improving safety in Bangladeshi ready-made garment factories after the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse.
Cheung Hing Sweater was the first Dragon Group sweater factory to be established. It was founded in the 1980s with 50 Chinese technicians, about 300 machines and about 600 employees. In 2008, 2 directors of Rupali Insurance were fined by the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) for non violation of securities law in connection ...
The National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) is a registered national trade union federation of garment workers in Bangladesh. With 87 registered factory unions, it ifs considered one of the four main federations of garment workers' unions. [3]