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\u201cOnly a couple of months ago, if you asked a garment industry owner what do you think of a union, they will say no, no unions,\u201d says Fazle Abed of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. \u201cBut now many of them are saying yes, maybe the union is something we have to accept.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnly a couple of months ago, if you asked a garment industry owner what do you think of a union, they will say no, no unions,\u201d says Fazle Abed of the Bangladesh Rural Affairs Committee. \u201cBut now many of them are saying yes, maybe the union is something we have to accept.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":19126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[2326,17675,1090,3223,9488],"class_list":["post-19108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-bangladesh","tag-garment-industry","tag-global-economy","tag-unions","tag-worker-justice","topics-ethics","topics-international"],"yoast_head":"\nJuly 5, 2013 ~ Bangladesh Worker Justice | July 3, 2013 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Will the deadly factory 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