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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh last week , which killed at least 705 workers and injured thousands of others, has put a spotlight on a problem that plagues many supply chains: the use of slave labor. Companies are also starting to take action — albeit, reactively in many cases.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. A 2021 Deloitte study documented how 43% of UK consumers selected brands based on environmentally sustainable values. In the U.S., as a tornado struck a town in Kentucky in December 2021, workers at.

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Ensuring Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Too often, however, those documents fail to prevent unacceptable working conditions. A former journalist, she first became aware of the need for an intensive training regimen in Bangladesh, site of multiple labor violations and worker deaths. QuizRR’s program starts at Tier 1, but was designed to move upstream as well.