businesses pandemic behind them. so just they might facilitate of your business on what's in berlin. welcome to the program. over a 1000 lives lost in an instant. the collapse of the ron plaza. textile, factory and bangladesh shall light on the appalling conditions faced by many of the worlds factory workers. now exactly 10 years on after lessons been learned, memories of a nightmare. okay. cartoon still has these images stuck in her head. she was working in the ronna plaza textile factory near bangladesh, his capital dhaka, when the building collapsed, more than 1100 people were killed, ro care was seriously injured. or if i look welcome, i will love like this. in lieu of that, i will never be able to forget that day. look at the memories of it. make me incredibly sad. my daughter still got them. i feel like i'm still buried under the rubble. i'm. is that good?

well, when i think back on it, i mean the world is collapsing on me. i wish so much that i could just forget all this and go back to normal life. hope of the, the sewing machine in her sister's room is a reminder of her old life. she can no longer use it. the injuries were care cartoon suffered or too severe. a monument to remember the victims has been built at the sight of the collapse. the once bustling area is now overgrown with nature. many lessons have been learned from the accident, says abdulla allah, keep he own several textile factories inspections. officials have awarded his buildings for being sustainable and safe. after that, then dive. can't see actually went south and the resiliency walked out of the de facto nor lead the global men the. 2 even the brand partners, they all work together and we actually invested into all those. so the state of the

art of facilities, there are now legally mandated controls regulations on how many fire extinguishers must be present. a minimum size for emergency exits, members of the workforce who must be trained in rescue procedures. but the standard isn't this high across bangladesh. working conditions in the textile sector are still dangerous, even though the textile industry accounts for 80 percent of the country's exports. another issue is the low minimum wage. it's barely enough for millions of people to survive. wages isn't poor. $8000.00 taca and it's a huge and slash and now for workers is to toss in order to maintain that bailey mainly. and they're cutting the middle not only from the adults, from the children's to. this is something okay, a cartoon can relate to before the collapse,

she sometimes worked more than 12 hours a day, earning roughly 50 euros per month. now that she's unable to work, she relies on her brother in law for financial support. still, she's grateful for a 2nd chance at life, and she doesn't want to let it go to waste under any circumstances. well, let's discuss what has or hasn't changed in the decades since the tragedy at ron plaza with alco bursa, deputy general secretary of unique global union which represents service workers around the world. alca space. the place to start here, 10 years later is to ask, could run a plaza happen again. well, thank you for talking to me today. unfortunately, i would say we are not in a situation yet in the world where around o'clock i could not happen somewhere else . and any other country i believe, and by my dash we have meet a lot of progress. certainly the fact that have been covered by the court. i'm much,

much safer than they were 10 years ago. but only at the beginning of our program, which we're planning to expand into other countries, and i would say the risk off and industrial disaster off the dimensions of run apply happening in another country is not unlikely record you mention this has been signed up to by many brands, but what does it require of them? and how has that brought about change in the past decade? the following around a plaza collapse in 2013 be signed an agreement. the leading global retailers brown's. they have signed a series of additional agreement following that $1.20 companies worldwide signed on to this agreement and then made a commitment to 1st of all, require the facts, reset the workplace to meet the building, face behalf and agree standard that is agreed with the government of bangladesh and

through engineer conducted audits by the program that we have to have established. the factories have been required to make changes so that workers are safe for they go into the factory. but in addition to that, let's a very important part of our program. we have trade both workers and managers in the factories to set up health and safety committee and to be alert to understand what requirements there are for a factory to be safe. and a very important element that we have included into this agreement is also the work of can actually make a complaint about issues that they're finding in the factories. we have an independent complaint mechanism that is recognized as the most critical, incredible complaints mechanism out there in the world. the factories can be reported when workers find that there are safety issues. and those reports will be investigated by the, the team that we have on the ground in front. and then we'll be taken off that does

any of a bangladesh right. seems like that has been a progress over the past decade. be sort of hinted earlier that beyond the dash there are concerns in other countries where should we be looking to now to spot the sort of potential for something like run a plaza. what we have done this, the international court is to look at a number of countries. they are the brands that have signed this agreement are sourcing from. and we have identified practice time in the next country that breaks funding the report to for in discussions with the government of pakistan. very discussed that the brands with the industry in pakistan about setting up the program there, which will take the lessons learned from bundle dish and include the same elements which are inspections and remediation and safety training programs for managers and workers and the complaints mechanism. and people i developed those into

a specific program for pakistan. and that's the 1st country we're going to be have of course, the ambition to expand our program into other countries as well. but practice on the next one, we're going to start operations. now i remember back 10 years ago after the tragedy that there was a lot of soul searching among many of us as consumers, thinking about what have we, in any way contributed to what's happened here by the choices we made. in terms of how much we're willing to pay for certain products or who we buy those products from. is there anything that consumes can be doing to play their own parts and sort of preventing the sorts of conditions forming that were the conditions that allowed run a plaza to happen? lansing, it unfortunately has not improved as much as the safety in the, in the factories is the, the be doesn't salaries that are being paid to the factory workers. and a lot of that has to do with the price is that a brands are prepared to pay for the products that are being made in those

factories. that's a problem that we're seeing. it's not part of the program that we have, but it's certainly an element that needs to be developed. and consumers can make their contribution by 1st of all, checking their, their, did the products that they're buying are being made to leave. first of all, make sure that they come from the factory that is covered by the court, but also by requiring, asking off the brand. so they're buying the product. so asking them to pay a fair wages to the record, making the products ok, i'll capacity go from here in a global union. thanks a lot for joining us on t. w. a business. to pleasure. thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other global business stories making the news. it was expected to be credit suisse is final, quarterly report records show that the bank so over $62000000000.00, yours worth of withdrawals. the 1st 3 months of this year that it was able to increase profits because it's higher risk debts were wiped out. pretty sweet was

followed by u. b. s. and emergency take one day strike it to made a german apple. this is grounded hundreds of flights. the war, counted berlin and humbug. apple was i pay for security work is ground crew. you know, it's logic. economy has seen increasingly disruptive strikes in recent months. as union is representing work is in many travel sectors. demand better pay and german business confidence edged up in april, according to a recent index reading by the german e phone institute of economic search. optimism was boasted by falling energy prices and china's reopening, but was offset by concerns about higher interest rates. i asked if i was president clements 1st, what german businesses are saying as their main challenge, right. i think businesses though faith, a lot of uncertainty regarding the energy supply and the energy price situation,

maybe not in the summer about in the next autumn. we may be back in a critical situation because we are not able to split up our stalls with gas from russia, so that has to come from somewhere else. at the same time, there's of course uncertainty about the ukraine war and about relations to china. china is very important markets for german companies. so there are worries here, and they're also worried about the impact of higher interest rates and more restrictive monetary policy only economies. so it's not quite clear how inflation, the pressure, how far it will go down and how quickly. and the companies are worried about that also because the real incomes of consumers are depressed and it's not, not, not clear how wage settlements with you with that interesting. you talk about jeff a little issues that being a factor and you talked about interest rates,

etc. the pandemic, the impacts of the panoramic on sentiment and, and how businesses are assessing that, that their situation are they gone now is that in the past, i think the pandemic is behind us. apart from the fact that the supply chain disruptions are an effect or consequence of the pandemic, mostly about that is also easing at the moment. so i think the pandemic is more or less behind us. so of course, this is left scarves in people in their education. they'd has left scars on balance sheets of some companies, but i would say the current concerns, i'm all about energy supply and about geopolitical tensions. ok, if a president clemons, please. thanks so much for your time. thank you. that's all for man of business, inherent berlin until next time

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