Bangladesh garment workers go on strike.

[lfromnj]

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231103-bangladesh-protests-halt-production-for-top-fashion-brands-union-1

Bangladesh's 3,500 garment factories account for around 85 percent of the South Asian country's $55 billion annual exports, supplying many of the world's top names in fashion.

But conditions are dire for many of the sector's four million workers, the vast majority of whom are women whose monthly wages start at 8,300 taka ($75).

Dozens of factories have been ransacked by striking workers, with several hundred others shuttered by their owners to avoid vandalism.

Among them are "many of the country's bigger factories, who make clothing for almost all major Western brands and retailers," Kalpona Akter, president of the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF), told AFP.

[WalterWhite]

The plight of the Proletariat transcends national boundaries.

[PSOL]

An international strike thread posted by Lfromnj?

Damn I’ve been lacking

[Indy Texas]

Most people would probably be shocked if you told them their clothes were produced in a way virtually indistinguishable from the way they were a century ago - rooms full of women hunched over sewing machines, working for little pay in abysmal conditions.

Now it's just happening in Bangladesh instead of Brooklyn.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Now it's just happening in Bangladesh instead of Brooklyn.

I cant agree on that 100%.

Dave Chappelle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0V0A2g7lI

[dead0man]

Most people would probably be shocked if you told them their clothes were produced in a way virtually indistinguishable from the way they were a century ago - rooms full of women hunched over sewing machines, working for little pay in abysmal conditions.

Now it's just happening in Bangladesh instead of Brooklyn.

indeed.  If a person claims to "support the worker" and buys new clothes all the time (unless properly sourced, you can buy clothes not made with quasi slave labor), they are an asshole.

[Dr. MB]

Most people would probably be shocked if you told them their clothes were produced in a way virtually indistinguishable from the way they were a century ago - rooms full of women hunched over sewing machines, working for little pay in abysmal conditions.

Now it's just happening in Bangladesh instead of Brooklyn.

indeed.  If a person claims to "support the worker" and buys new clothes all the time (unless properly sourced, you can buy clothes not made with quasi slave labor), they are an asshole.

Only get free or thrifted 🙏

[CumbrianLefty]

And to think some people despise collective action as a principle.