‘Give workers an equal seat’: pressure builds for Levi’s to protect factory employees

Activists say that the company's own audits have been ineffective and workers receive inadequate safety protections

Workers and activists have been campaigning to push Levi's, one of the world's largest clothing brands, to sign on to an international accord for workers' health and safety in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment clothing factories, collapsed, killing 1,134 people and injuring approximately 2,500, in the deadliest disaster in the garment industry's history.