Western Clothing Brands Escape Blame in Deadly Factory Collapse

(Pic via Associated Press/A.M. Ahad)

It was one of 2013’s most tragic stories—and it should have been one of the year’s biggest PR disasters as well.

Unfortunately, as we enter 2014 it looks like the Western clothing companies involved in April’s Bangladeshi factory collapse have washed their hands of it in every possible way.

The fall of the Rana Plaza factory killed more than 1,100 people, but most of the companies that produced clothing there have not just tried to distance themselves from the accident: they’ve also refused to contribute to a fund set up to benefit the victims and their families.

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