After I read this and a few other articles related to the horrific factory fire, I was enraged about the treatment the workers went through in such high-risk environments. Over 100 lives were lost in this factory making clothes for major companies such as Wal-Mart, Disney and Sears. What point I was very shocked about was when Kevin Gardner, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart, refused to comment on the situation when he was asked how a supplier could use a factory without the retailer's approval. This really shows how corporations have gotten lazy and began to slack off on their job and let certain things fly under the radar. How can a person not know where their company's merchandise is being produced at? Is that not a person's job to find safe areas to supply their brands to be made? This also happened with the company, Sears, who knew after the fire that their merchandise was being produced there without approval through a vendor.
Another point I thought was absolutely insane was that the eight-story building had no emergency exits. I cannot seem to understand why the three men arrested would lock the people inside the factory at their stations. A safety drill or not, if the fire alarm goes off everyone should exit the building immediately. What were the three men gaining when they locked the workers inside? They put 1,400 people's lives at stack and killing 112 of them. This tragic fire is a wake-up call for all companies to double check the factories and their safety/work methods.
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