ABSTRACT
The employees at Rana Plaza who made clothing for export into the world’s garment retailers had few if any protected labor rights. As Human Rights Watch reported two years after the collapse,
If workers at Rana Plaza had more of a voice, it is entirely possible that the circumstances that led to the thousands of deaths and injuries could have been prevented. None of the five factories operating in Rana Plaza had a trade union, and so workers were powerless to resist their managers who ordered, threatened, and cajoled them to enter the doomed building a day after large cracks had appeared in it.
