Seven years since the Ali Enterprises factory fire of 2012, in which over 250 workers were killed, textile and garment factories in Pakistan remain as unsafe as they were then, warns a report launched today. Initiatives established in the past years have failed to put workers and the unions that represent them in the centre of their programs and therefore will fail to meaningfully address the industry’s safety issues. Unions and labor education organizations in Pakistan are calling for a mechanism modelled on the safety program put into place in 2013 after Bangladesh’s deadly Rana Plaza building collapse...
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