By: Fernando Nuñez
Bangladeshi garment worker leaders visited the University of Minnesota Friday to speak out against unsafe working conditions in Bangladeshi factories, some of which produce official University garments.
The event featured Kalpona Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and Reba Sikder, a survivor of April’s Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,100 people.
The national organization United Students Against Sweatshops organized the event, which was part of the national “End Deathtraps” tour.