Bangladesh Kills Over 110 Workers

Tragedies in Bangladesh 

November 25, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh over the weekend more than 100 workers died in a fire and of smoke inhalation. The problem that many factories suffer are that a lot of factories don't have many fire escape exits and plans if a fire happens, which caused many people to die. These factories produce products for major companies such as Tommy Hilfiger and Gap which are sold by Walmart, Walmart knows that these workers suffer everyday of these hazardous chemicals but don't plan to help out or even stop it. A member from the fire department named Major Mahbub says that "The fire could have been caused by an electrical fault or by a spark from a cigarette". Someone in the building may have done this or could even have a machine blowup and caused a fire.

Alex's Workers Rights Blog Assessment

Problems With FIFA In Brazil And In Sweatshops

A major issue that the citizens of Brazil were facing was a huge association named FIFA. FIFA was hosting it's FIFA World Cup in Brazil on July 14th 2014. Millions of fans across the globe came to visit the world cup but many didn't notice that why wasn't anybody really happy outside of the world cup's stadium. FIFA tore apart hundreds and thousands of homes to make one of the largest soccer stadiums but only for a month. Innocent citizens that lived in that location where the stadium was built were evicted from their homes because FIFA was building a stadium on there homes. This was such a major issue that more people in other countries seen that this was breaking so many rights that they didn't want to attend the world cup nor even be apart of it's association. This made me upset because the government of Brazil allowed this and spent billions of dollars to build this stadium but didn't spend billions of dollars to the people in need in Brazil. 

Many people that are working in a sweatshop are really tired and really stressed. Everyone that is working in a sweatshop are feeling like if they are a machine because they don't have any emotions or feelings. I think that this poem was way worser than how it was in Brazil because of FIFA, millions of workers feel like this in sweatshops. This face all of these fears across the whole world working for major companies and don't get paid a lot. The poem about sweatshops was really interesting because you had a perspective of how a sweatshop worker felt and for the article you only had facts and information about how it was.