Opinion: Canada and consumers need to do more to ensure companies operating in Bangladesh push for the best wages and safety for the workers making our clothes.
As a young reporter in Bangladesh, I’ll never forget getting the call from my newsroom on the morning on April 24, 2013, to rush over to the outskirts of Dhaka.
With tears and disbelief about the magnitude of the disaster, I gave updates to my newsroom. But I couldn’t just go back home. This was not just any story. I rushed to my university to help organize blood donations; it was the least I could do at that moment. Despite being the second-largest supplier of ready-made apparel to Canada, Bangladesh’s minimum wage is barely one-third that of China. According to Statistics Canada, even workers in Vietnam and Cambodia earn twice as much as those in Bangladesh.I recently obtained a survey of the Rana Plaza survivors conducted by international NGO Action Aid Bangladesh, which wsa released to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.
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