At the third monitoring meeting for the Sustainability Compact on Thursday 18 May, the partners in the Compact for the ready-made garments sector in Bangladesh (the EU, USA, Canada and International Labour Organisation – ILO – in collaboration with the authorities of Bangladesh) hailed progress on safety in the workplace and procedures for registering unions, but called for more to be done to improve workers' rights.
In response to the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in...