Action at Fashion Week to:
Tell Gap and Trina Turk: No one should have to die for fashion
Demand that GAP Join Tommy Hilfiger’s Agreement to a Comprehensive Fire Safety Program in Bangladesh Factories
More than 600 garment workers have died in preventable fires while sewing clothing for companies like Gap, H&M, and Wal-Mart since 2006. These companies have refused to institute and pay for reliable fire safety measures at the factories where they contract to have their clothing made in Bangladesh.
Gap Inc. has refused to participate in a comprehensive fire safety program, to which two other major apparel brands (Tommy Hilfiger/Phillips Van Heusen, and German retailer, Tchibo) have already committed.
Instead, Gap continues its failed self-regulatory approach that it and other brands have used for two decades: self-monitoring with no role for workers or their trade unions, no commitment to pay prices to suppliers that make it feasible for them to make their factories safe. The consequences have been disastrous.
Gap’s monitors repeatedly gave a clean bill of health to That’s It Sportswear, the factory that burned in December 2010, killing 29 workers, many leaping to their deaths from the upper floors of the building because locked stairway doors barred their escape. It is the same discredited approach that has failed to prevent hundreds more apparel workers from dying in preventable factory fires in Bangladesh in recent years.
Meet at Lincoln Center Fountain on Columbus between W 65th St. and W 62nd St.
When: Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 1:30 to 2:30 PM