Wal-Mart factory fire proves that ‘workers in Bangladesh are dying just like workers in the US did 100 years ago’

Cenk Uygur talks with Theresa Haas, director of communications for the Worker Rights Consortium, about Wal-Mart’s decision not to make safety improvements at the Bangladesh factory that later caught fire, killing more than 100 workers. “When Wal-Mart says ‘Hey, listen, those [changes] were too expensive, so we couldn’t do it’ — how true or untrue is that?” Cenk asks. “It’s something that Wal-Mart absolutely has the financial ability to do,” Haas says. “It’s a matter of political will within Wal-Mart, and the company simply isn’t willing to put forward what is, to them, a relatively small amount of money that would ultimately save the lives of hundreds and possibly thousands of workers and their suppliers.”