Hundreds of workers from one factory have fallen ill due to what is suspected to be a poisoned water supply. These workers already living in hell on earth now have vomiting and diarrhea to the point many were hospitalized.
As many as 600 Bangladesh factory employees have been hospitalized, reporting stomach pains and vomiting after drinking water, suspected to have been deliberately contaminated.
“Primarily we suspect the water supply of the Starlight Sweaters factory was poisoned or contaminated,” local industrial police officer Mahfuzur Rahman told AFP on Wednesday. The factory is located in Gazipur, a suburb just north of the capital, Dhaka.
The estimate of 600 was cited to the news agency by the administrative officer of the factory, with an official from Bangladesh's Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), stating that the contamination could well have been deliberate.
Not surprising this factory makes garments for the usual suspects.
We are pleased to introduce ourselves as a 100% export oriented sweater manufacturer namEd STARLIGHT SWEATERS LTD. We export all kinds of sweater, cardigan, tang top, pullover from Bangladesh. We make sweater by all kinds of yarn like 100% acrylic, 100% cotton, 50/50 acrylic/cotton, 50/50 acrylic/wool, 70/30 Acrylic/Wool, 100% acrylic chenille and all kinds of local and foreign fancy yarn as per buyer requirement etc.
We have a strong Q.C system in our factory for our quality as per customer requirement.
We proudly claim that we have a very high standard factory in Bangladesh. Our present customers are Wallmart, Promod, Jacqulin Riu, Macys, Otto, Jennyfer, System-U, etc.
We need to understand that corporations are acting globally thus the response of labor must also be a global effort. This means we should not only boycott these products but we should also strike as if it was our own brothers and sisters suffering because in realty they are our brothers and sisters.