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"Madam President, the day before the Rana Plaza collapsed workers did not have a collective voice to refuse to enter an unsafe workplace and were confronted by factory management with the choice of doing so or losing their jobs. This was not just a Bangladeshi tragedy but an international one, with 29 international brands sourcing garments from the factories housed in the faulty building. It is disgraceful that those injured and the families of the victims still await rightful compensation, while brands continue to generate large profits. Payments must be made. Sadly, it took a man-made disaster to finally begin long overdue efforts to ensure better working conditions in the sector.
A full reform of the Bangladeshi Labour Act is therefore needed. We have a moral obligation to ensure a more comprehensive and effective multilateral approach to make basic labour standards and minimum working conditions a priority. The EU needs to use its influence for this change. We owe this to the more than 1 100 workers who lost their lives on 24 April 2013 and to future generations. I hope that the Commissioner, just as my colleague said, will be pushing for the compensation, for future tragedies to be prevented and for trade unions to be strengthened."@en1
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