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Article

10 Apr 2007

Author:
Clean Clothes Campaign

Spectrum Workers Receive First Payments from Compensation Fund: Carrefour still Refusing to Participate

Days before the second anniversary of the Spectrum garment factory collapse, which killed 64 and injured 80 (54 seriously), 22 workers received the first distribution of a US$ 60,000 advance from the fund...Several companies producing at Spectrum and the adjoining Shahriyar Fabric - Inditex (Spain), KarstadtQuelle (Germany), New Wave Group (Sweden), Scapino (Netherlands), and Solo Invest (France) - have agreed to participate in the fund, which will provide a monthly income to survivors and families of those who died at the factory that produced their garments, built on a swamp and not up to standard. Those who have not committed to the compensation trust fund include: Carrefour (France), Cotton Group (Belgium), New Yorker, Steilmann, Kirsten Mode, and Bluhmod (Germany).

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