After the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh that made Joe Fresh clothing killed 1,134 workers a decade ago, its Canadian parent company promised safe factories and fair wages. Ten years later, an investigation by The Fifth Estate raises questions of whether Loblaw has delivered on that promise.
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This article was co-authored with Christie Miedema, campaigns and outreach coordinator at the Clean Clothes Campaign International Office. Garment worker protests, a brutal police crackdown, worker deaths, arrests and repression, and finally, an official minimum wage announcement that is far below living wage levels. For anyone who follows Bangladesh’s minimum wage negotiations, it’s like watching a preventable crash in slow-motion. There were similar worker protests and subsequent police