James A. Gross, workers’ rights expert and professor at Cornell University’s ILR School, comments on the specter of workplace fatalities this year, including 119 people who died Monday in China and more than 1,000 workers who died in April at a Bangladesh factory.
Gross says:
“Some employers expose workers to preventable, predictable, serious risks that result in death.
“This is not just a safety violation or cheating someone out of overtime, which is bad enough. We’re talking about sacrificing human life to achieve higher productivity, efficiency or profit.
“In those cases, economic development trumps health and safety every time and it happens all around the world.”
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