Shannon Singer: it's a canned answer, they don't give a sh!T

Susan Rankin: If Walmart has SUCH a good relationship with the Bangladeshian Government then use it to get all charges against the labor leaders dropped. Otherwise, we will boycott Walmart. Thanks for your great humanitarian concern Walmart.

Cosi has not made a commitment to using cocoa that is Fair Trade Certified and it has almost no information publicly available about its policies to ensure that its food products are not linked to extreme labor rights abuses. That is why concerned consumers are calling on Cosi to start using Fair Trade Certified cocoa for its chocolate products, starting with s'mores.

While this legislation is profitable for investors and is bringing garment manufacturing jobs to the nation, workers rights and other such groups are adamant that a sweatshop-based development model is not suitable for the positive advancement of Haiti’s economy and people. Yannick Etienne, an organizer with the labor rights group Batay Ouvriyè believes the U.S. legislation will bring profits to the big companies while causing instability and poor workplace standards. She advocates for worldwide solidarity to give Haitians union rights and the power to change their situations.

March 25, 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the devastating fire that flourished through the upper three floors of the Triangle Factory in downtown Manhattan, killing 129 women and 17 men.. On the day of the fire at 4:40pm the 8th floor caught aflame (from what is thought to be a discarded cigarette), there was no plan, never even practice of a fire drill. Unfortunately 146 people were caught in the inescapable fire.. Sprinkles and fire drills were happening in other factories, but not in the Triangle Factory. Later evidence discovered that the ninth floor exits, with three-hundred employees, had been locked.