Gee, scratch your head. Hundreds of people die in a horrific garment factory fire in Bangladesh. Then, just yesterday, 120 people die in a poultry factory in China. Is there a connection? Of course.
The company operating a poultry processing factory in northeast China where a fire and ammonia gas poisoning killed at least 120 people had been praised and supported by government officials as a model enterprise, raising questions of whether the officials had done thorough and aggressive inspections.
And, before that, Bangladesh.
The connection? In neither place was there a union to protect workers.
But, that’s the price being demanded by the glorious “free market” — bodies everywhere for the sake of profit.
