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Photo taken August 2013. (Andrew Biraj \/ Reuters)\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rana_plaza_ruins_rtr_img_1.jpg?scale=896&compress=80\u0022 alt=\u0022A-man-amidst-the-ruins-of-Rana-Plaza\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp class=\u0022caption\u0022\u003EIn front of the Rana Plaza site, Abdur Rahman holds a photo of his wife, Cahyna Akhter, who was killed in the factory collapse. Photo taken August 2013. \u003Cspan class=\u0022credits\u0022\u003E(Andrew Biraj \/ Reuters)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv style=\u0022clear:both\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003EToday marks the fourth anniversary of Bangladesh\u2019s tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,000 workers and left the world aghast at the international clothing-supply chain\u2019s lax regulations. After that disaster, Bangladesh issued labor reforms that promised to simplify the unionization process for the workers of its vast garment industry. Today, apparently, the collective-bargaining process has indeed been simplified: Demand a decent wage, get fired, go to jail, repeat.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Caside class=\u0022ad right most-popular-plus-ad grey_back\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv id=\u0022ad-halfpage-243179-0\u0022 class=\u0022sailthru_class_form\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\u0022 class=\u0022ad-policy\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAd Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/two-years-after-rana-plaza-are-bangladeshs-workers-still-risk\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFollowing the Rana Plaza tragedy\u003C\/a\u003E, international outrage spurred new regulations to address, at least on paper, the profound lack of basic labor protections for the massive garment-industry workforce. But those changes haven\u2019t made much of an impact for workers. Last December, hundreds of workers and labor activists clashed with owners of the Ashulia manufacturing facility outside Dhaka following a massive strike that affected some 59 different factories. Activists say that the same government that vowed to improve working conditions in 2013 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.solidaritycenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bangladesh-Escalation-in-campaign-to-silence-garment-workers-2017-01-14.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eis now ignoring the struggles\u003C\/a\u003E of the estimated 1,600 people fired after that strike, along with hundreds accused of various subversive acts, including about 34 labor activists.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir chief crime seems to be demanding decent work and a more democratic workplace after suffering \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2017\/02\/15\/bangladesh-stop-persecuting-unions-garment-workers\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eyears of oppression and wage theft\u003C\/a\u003E, detailed in an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/22\/business\/bangladesh-protest-apparel-clothing.html?_r=0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eextensive \u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E report\u003C\/a\u003E. Though human-rights groups and multinational clothing brands such as H&M and Zara \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dhakatribune.com\/business\/2017\/02\/23\/top-brands-boycott-bangladesh-garment-summit\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehave publicly condemned the crackdown\u003C\/a\u003E, labor activists continue getting systematically criminalized just for organizing to push the wage floor above $67 a month.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe owner is always looking for their profit, generating more and more income,\u201d argues \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.solidaritycenter.org\/bangladesh-union-president-empowering-women-through-unions\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Elabor leader Nomita Nath\u003C\/a\u003E. Speaking through a translator on a recent visit to the United States to meet with labor advocates, the president of Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union Federation tells \u003Cem\u003EThe Nation\u003C\/em\u003E that the poorer and more desperate workers are, the easier it is to subject them to unregulated, dangerous conditions: \u201c[I]f they can save money from depriving us [of the] minimum wage, they will also try [to provide] less and less on safety measures, so they can save money from that too,\u201d adds the former child factory worker, who has been striking since she was a teenager.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E4\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Caside class=\u0022right hidden-on-mobile most-popular-plus-ad\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022most-popular hover_b_remove\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ch3\u003EMost Popular\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E1\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/obama-from-the-rearview-mirror\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Obama From the Rearview Mirror\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EObama From the Rearview Mirror\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E2\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/donald-trump-is-the-president-our-military-leaders-always-dreamed-about\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Donald Trump Is the President Our Military Leaders Always Dreamed About\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EDonald Trump Is the President Our Military Leaders Always Dreamed About\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E3\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/an-arizona-legislator-gave-an-invocation-that-didnt-mention-god-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027An Arizona Legislator Gave an Invocation That Didn\u2019t Mention God. You Won\u2019t Believe What Happened Next.\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EAn Arizona Legislator Gave an Invocation That Didn\u2019t Mention God. You Won\u2019t Believe What Happened Next.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E4\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/in-south-korea-war-hysteria-is-seen-as-an-american-problem\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027In South Korea, War Hysteria Is Seen as an American Problem\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EIn South Korea, War Hysteria Is Seen as an American Problem\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E5\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/frances-fitzgerald-why-did-white-evangelicals-vote-for-our-immoral-president\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Frances Fitzgerald: Why Did White Evangelicals Vote For Our Immoral President?\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EFrances Fitzgerald: Why Did White Evangelicals Vote For Our Immoral President?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/aside\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Ashulia strikers were demanding a raise in the legal minimum wage for garment workers from $67 a month to $190\u2014though for many, that would still fall far short of a livable family wage. Workers are also pressing the government for a formal sector-wide wage review, which the government is allowed to commission up to every three years. But factory owners and the industry group BGMEA insist that their factories, which drive several billion dollars in exports a year, cannot raise their their wage floor above 32 cents an hour. While coopting local security forces to suppress labor campaigners with violence and terror, the owners have secured the support of industry-affiliated politicians or are members of the government themselves.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E5\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003EThe political stagnation has only escalated workers\u2019 frustration, as they remain systematically impoverished by a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/this-is-what-goes-into-your-cheap-t-shirt\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emultinational manufacturing system\u003C\/a\u003E that is fueled by transnational inequality, warp-speed consumption, and global mass marketing. Nath counters the industry\u2019s perennial excuse for keeping wages ultra-low or laying off workers\u2014that the higher wages, which H&M and other Western companies say they want to support for workers, are unsustainable. From a factory worker\u2019s perspective, it\u2019s profit-hoarding, not business acumen, at work.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E6\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow can they, starting from one small factory and [make] a group of industries in a few years? So they are lying,\u201d Nath argues. \u201cThey have money but they are shutting down the factories on their will to just make us jobless and making the propaganda, to make people believe that it\u2019s not us, it\u2019s the other party, just foreigners, that are doing that.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E7\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003ERana Plaza and other factory disasters in recent years have spurred some regulatory breakthroughs. International pressure \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.laborrights.org\/publications\/dangerous-delays-worker-safety\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edrove some nationwide reforms\u003C\/a\u003E for factory safety to prevent so-called \u201cdeath trap\u201d incidents, culminating in a legally binding international factory-safety accord. And minimum wages have been increased incrementally. But labor activists fear that as public pressure dissipates, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/can-western-corporations-be-held-accountable-deaths-factories-halfway-around-world\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebiggest obstacle to achieving equity for workers\u003C\/a\u003E\u2014suppression of their right to organize\u2014remains as fierce as ever. The union busting speaks to an erosion of Bangladesh\u2019s civil society under a chaotic political climate, which is also fraught with partisan warfare and panic over Islamic terrorism\u2014but on an everyday level, it perhaps presents the greatest threat to many workers\u2019 rights, and sometimes their lives.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E8\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cstyle\u003E\n .cta.primary.PIJvoeasfx{\n background: #cc0e0e !important;\n color: #ffffff !important;\n }\n .cta.primary.PIJvoeasfx a:hover\n {\n color: #cc0e0e !important;\n background: #ffffff !important;\n }\n \u003C\/style\u003E\n \u003Caside class=\u0022siderail__item full cta primary right article_action_right PIJvoeasfx\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cdiv class=\u0022item__content\u0022\u003E\n \u003Ch3\u003EGET A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION \r\nFOR JUST $12!\r\n\u003C\/h3\u003E\n \u003Ca href=\u0022 https:\/\/ssl.palmcoastd.com\/06601\/apps\/ORDOPTION1LANDING?ikey=I**ALL \u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022btn\u0022\u003ESubscribe\u003C\/a\u003E \n \u003C\/div\u003E \n\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lack of basic workplace rights deeply undermines both workers\u2019 livelihoods and their access to democracy, Nath says, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/trumps-relentless-chaotic-distractions\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eparticularly for rural migrant women\u003C\/a\u003E: \u201cMost of the women laborers come from the village areas, and they are basically illiterate\u2026. They are so poor, they\u2019re happy with little money. Whenever they got job opportunit[ies] in factories, they thought, \u2018OK, we got a lot.\u2019 So that\u2019s why they are not\u2026conscious about their rights, and the owners are taking advantage of them.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E9\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003ENath says the ability to organize is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.laborrights.org\/publications\/our-voices-our-safety-bangladeshi-garment-workers-speak-out\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Enot just a parallel question\u003C\/a\u003E to the material issues of wages and safety; without the collective power of a union and access to a collective-bargaining and grievance process, workers cannot gain genuine autonomy and hold bosses, or the international industry, accountable.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E10\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cstyle\u003E\n\t\t\t\t.article-wrap .article-body aside.left.custom_background_243179\t\t\t\t {\n\t\t\t\t background:none !important;\n\t\t\t\t }\n\t\t\t\t \u003C\/style\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cstyle\u003E\n\t\t\t\t.article-wrap .article-body aside.left.custom_background_243179\t\t\t\t {\n\t\t\t\t background:#5000b2 !important;\n\t\t\t\t }\n\t\t\t\t \u003C\/style\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Caside class=\u0022left takeaction indent custom_background_243179\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022action_tout_heading\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETHE STAKES ARE HIGHER NOW THAN EVER. 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If there is no union, if we don\u2019t raise our voice, the owner will [continue to be] lacking on safety issues.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E11\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003EThe right to free assembly was the focus of a global inquest by the United Nations labor authorities last year. 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