Are Workers Rights Human Rights?

When we see a shirt on a rack for $14, most of us are not aware that the shirt only costs $5 to make. We don’t realize that people are dying in order to make the shirts we purchase and wear. In most retail driven supply chains, profit gained from the markup of the good mostly goes to the merchant, not the worker who made it. Almost ¾ths of garment factory disasters happened in this decade, one known as the Rana Plaza collapsed and killed over 1,000 people and injured many more. Responses to these recent disasters have failed to change working conditions.