fashion retailer H & M and Zara Bangladesh sign security agreement

  Important European fashion retailer H & M and Zara have agreed to sign a legally binding security to improve the working conditions in garment factories in Bangladesh, break down after a day of April building killed at least 1,127 people in Dhaka.

Title of Agreement on fire and building safety in Bangladesh, he was drafted by the International Labour Organisation and other groups. Based in Spain Zara and H & M Sweden joined British Tesco and Primark compliance with this Agreement, provided the BBC with other clothing companies - with the notable absence of major U.S. retailers.

What would such a deal done? Safety checks to be independent and mandatory public reporting upgrades and patches on the plate, USA Today wrote, while the two brands and retailers are obliged, any plant that does not comply with the new rules to be cut.

The horrifying scale clothes factory disaster in Bangladesh has galvanized world opinion and pushed her approach to fashion brands offered cheaper production by the poor Asian nation to change.

For 12 years, workers' Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization of independent control of the work in the United States has been monitoring the working conditions in factories around the world, clothing brands and campaigns to produce improvement. The WRC and other militant groups have welcomed the decision of register H & M, Zara owner Inditex and other groups of European distribution renowned with regard to fire protection and construction for Bangladesh.

Workers and trade unions will also be allowed a say in the security process. The deadline for retailers to sign is set to 15.

Wal-Mart, Sears and JC Penney have not signed the agreement, the Wall Street Journal, adding that the U.S. producers appear on their own security agreement for Bangladesh to work instead.

Gap, the U.S. clothing retailer, said his only objection to the agreement on how disputes will be resolved by the courts. "The landscape is different from litigation in the United States and Europe," Bill Chandler, Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs for Gap, told the Journal.

Faced with an online petition CAP has announced its intention to register if there are legal issues with the security plan solves announced.

"We hope that a broad coalition of signatures for the agreement to work effectively on the ground," said H & M's head of sustainability Helena Helmersson in a statement, according to Reuters.

Bangladesh is the second largest clothing manufacturer in the world, behind China - but the workers are suffering under the relaxed working and safety of a patient hopes the new agreement to address.

RMC estimated the cost of Bangladesh factories to Western standards to a maximum of $ 3 billion euros or less than 3 percent of the $ 95 billion spent should the production of clothing in the next five years. Collapse in a statement issued after the Rana Plaza building, WRC said 10 cents per shirt would be sufficient for the industry to cover these costs.

"This agreement is exactly what it finally put an end to the epidemic and fire disasters construction that took so many lives garment industry in Bangladesh takes," said CEO Scott Nova WRC, according to the Associated Press. "This is a legally binding agreement enforceable under which signatory companies the necessary measures for the lives of workers who make their clothes must be protected."