WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced a $2.5 million grant to fund improvements in the enforcement and monitoring of fire and building safety standards in the ready-made garment sector of Bangladesh.
Ready-made garment production has been central to Bangladesh’s economic development, with the sector accounting for the vast majority of Bangladesh’s exports to the United States. The industry also is the focus of longstanding concerns over violations of worker rights and workplace safety standards.
The Department of Labor’s funding of technical assistance represents one important element in a broader strategy to address these issues. The department will fund one or more recipients who will work to (1) strengthen the Bangladesh Government’s ability to improve its enforcement of fire and building safety standards and (2) build the capacity of worker organizations to effectively monitor violations of fire and building safety standards and abate related hazards in the ready-made garment sector.
I guess I need this clarified. The U.S. is giving money to help workers who are doing work that is taking jobs from Americans. Just wondering when the last time Bangladesh gave money to the U.S. to help us out with a problem.
Somebody in Washington had better be figuring out a way to beat this 2.5 mil out of Walmart!
What is wrong with this administration??? Times have changed, we don’t have $$$ to throw around. Makes me ill. Look at the IRS and million $ of bonus’s? Unbelievable. Soon we’ll all be out of money and on the dole. Then what? Evidentially that is what they want.
This is really a crock, the burden to the US legal, working tax payer, never ends. What about the 1 billion that we’re giving them over the next five years. In 1971 when East Pakistan,(Bangladesh)was fighting for independence, the US should have stayed out of it. But no, dollar for dollar, just look at what we have gotten from them in the last 40+ years. Good investment I’d say….