{"id":32960,"date":"2012-12-06T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32960"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:31:44","slug":"salon-wal-mart-wouldnt-pay-for-bangladeshi-factory-safety-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/06\/salon-wal-mart-wouldnt-pay-for-bangladeshi-factory-safety-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon: Wal-Mart wouldn\u2019t pay for Bangladeshi factory safety improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting in April 2011, more than a dozen retailers including Wal-Mart, Gap, Target and JC Penney met in Dhaka to discuss safety at their supplier Bangladeshi garment factories. Bloomberg News revealed minutes from this meeting Wednesday, which show that Wal-Mart nixed a plan that would require retailers to pay their suppliers enough to cover safety improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a fire in a factory used by Wal-Mart killed 112 workers. There were no fire exits. Despite the fact that more than 700 Bangladeshi garment workers have died since 2005, Wal-Mart and Gap refused last year to pay higher costs for safety. Bloomberg cited comments from a document produced by Wal-mart\u2019s director of ethical sourcing and a Gap official for the Dhaka meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/06\/wal_mart_wouldnt_pay_for_bangladeshi_factory_safety_improvements\/\" title=\"Walmart\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a> for full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting in April 2011, more than a dozen retailers including Wal-Mart, Gap, Target and JC Penney met in Dhaka to discuss safety at their supplier Bangladeshi garment factories. Bloomberg News revealed minutes from this meeting Wednesday, which show that Wal-Mart nixed a plan that would require retailers to pay their suppliers enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32961,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions\/32961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}