{"id":48777,"date":"2022-09-23T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/23\/levis-garment-workers-bangladesh-pakistan-international-accord-health-safety"},"modified":"2022-09-23T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T08:00:30","slug":"give-workers-an-equal-seat-pressure-builds-for-levis-to-protect-factory-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48777","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Give workers an equal seat\u2019: pressure builds for Levi\u2019s to protect factory employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists say that the company\u2019s own audits have been ineffective and workers receive inadequate safety protections<\/p>\n<p>Workers and activists have been campaigning to push Levi\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levi.com\/US\/en_US\/features\/about-us\">one of the world\u2019s largest clothing brands<\/a>, to sign on to an international accord for workers\u2019 health and safety in Bangladesh and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>On 24 April 2013, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/apr\/24\/bangladeshi-police-target-garment-workers-union-rana-plaza-five-years-on\">Rana Plaza building<\/a> in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment clothing factories, collapsed, killing 1,134 people and injuring approximately 2,500, in the deadliest disaster in the garment industry\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/23\/levis-garment-workers-bangladesh-pakistan-international-accord-health-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists say that the company\u2019s own audits have been ineffective and workers receive inadequate safety protectionsWorkers and activists have been campaigning to push Levi\u2019s, one of the world\u2019s largest clothing brands, to sign on to an international ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,833,1453,59,60,834,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-fashion-industry","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-rana-plaza","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777\/revisions\/48778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}