"What will end these disasters is an urgent program of building renovations, " said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, who attended the meeting.
Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a Washington-based nonprofit monitoring group, said labor-rights groups' calls for better safety measures at Bangladesh factories had been met with "vague promises" from retailers.
"There is no chance this will be sustained unless major brands and retailers commit to raise prices so factories can afford the renovations that are essential to prevent future disasters, " said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a monitoring group in Washington.
Anis Hidayah, executive director of the migrant worker advocacy agency Migrant Care, told CNN that she was pleased with the government's decision to stop sending workers to Saudi Arabia but expressed a need for serious action beyond the creation of task forces given the responsibility of monitoring migrant worker protection overseas.
Historians will marvel at the extraordinary escalation in executive pay from 24 times worker pay in 1965 to 275 times worker pay in 2007, at a time when the rate of return on assets of US companies declined by 75% and the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune declined from 75 years to less than 15 years.
Kalpona Akter, the executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, is traveling with Abedin on a 12-state tour in the United States.
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"These workers sew the clothes that earn the country foreign currency, so they deserve better, " said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, a non-profit group.
The incident highlights the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multi-story factories are common because of flooding risks and high land cost, according to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The fire highlighted the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multistory factories are common because of flooding risks and the high cost of land, said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The incident highlighted the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multistory factories are common because of flooding risks and the high cost of land, according to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
Just look at executive compensation relative to that of an average worker and look at the ridiculous levels of compensation paid.
One stipulation of the new mandate was that a Ford worker needed permission from a Ford executive if he wanted to get his own automobile.
At Evernote, a software company, 250 employees every full-time worker, from receptionist to top executive have their homes cleaned twice a month, free.
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"These are workers who are most likely to spend virtually everything they earn, so it just pumps money back into local economies, " said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group.
By contrast, over that same period the remuneration package for the average chief executive doubled to a level 116 times that of the average worker.
This is a problem for the executive suite every bit as much as it is for the average knowledge worker sitting in his or her cube.
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John, executive director of Centre for Education and Communication and editor of Labour File a bimonthly journal on worker issues.
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