On Wednesday, January 29 (p. 8), the Volkskrant reported receipt that Ploumen a

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April last year, more than a thousand textile workers killed when a factory in Bangladesh collapsed. Following this tragedy, the initiative was taken to an agreement that will lead to greater transparency and independent audits. Because Dutch companies remained, called Minister Lilianne Ploumen them in late November to also sign. One of the companies mentioned was CoolCat, which is then reacted outraged and a counteroffensive receipt repel. The company knew this the Volkskrant on his side.
On Wednesday, January 29 (p. 8), the Volkskrant reported receipt that Ploumen a "quietly published news on the website of her department" would be turned into the CoolCat case. What a "quietly published" press release remains unclear - perhaps the uploader clicked softly on his mouse. Anyway, CoolCat would just lead the way in improving working conditions in Bangladesh, as the Minister thinks now. The question is whether this turn is the result of the arguments receipt CoolCat, or pressure from news media questioning the business receipt friendliness of someone who is also the minister of trade.
De Volkskrant itself for example, chose outspoken side CoolCat. receipt Founder and Fortune 500 millionaire Roland Kahn got all the space of the Volkskrant to maneuver themselves. The victim The minister would exert improper pressure and industry should give a chance. Compassion was thus averted the victims of the collapsed factory workers or shifts of 19 hours run, and turned towards the lone entrepreneur who is crushed by the state. Namely Kahn would have been forced to deal with the signing of an agreement that CoolCat on 18 December would. Eventually as 13th company in the Netherlands sails by external pressure
De Volkskrant was also able to report receipt that public shaming, as Minister Ploumen did, it would not work. Collaboration with companies, according receipt to the newspaper precisely the motto. To support this view cited repeatedly (here and here), the action group Clean Clothes Campaign to:
"It is also the question whether they [Ploumen] with her activist language contributes to the cause. The Clean Clothes Campaign has strong doubts. Will be achieved through diplomatic channels. More precisely the organization Boycotting stores does not fit into this solution direction receipt and moreover is counterproductive, because receipt the factory workers also have income to miss. "
"By naming and shaming, the naming and shaming naming companies that are insufficiently committed to good working conditions in the production locations of their clothing, the Clean Clothes receipt Campaign exerts pressure on clothing brands to take responsibility. receipt Our website is filled with the names of companies that need to do more. " receipt
The fact that CoolCat signed the agreement on 18 December, a month after the criticism of Ploumen, - where it is already a-half years on the 'thinking' was - is the logic of the Volkskrant evidence Ploumen's statements * no * effect have had.
This interpretation of the reason for the absence of the signature of Kahn is yet another reason dubious. Now the spotlight of the national media focused on him en masse, the operator calls a noble motive: the treaty would not have been specific enough. In May, however, he called receipt all the other arguments:
And if Kahn had noble reasons for the failure of his signature that he now claims, receipt then it is inconceivable that his tardiness would be accepted as the sinking of the textile factory was not in Dhaka, but occurred in the Netherlands.
The message of 29 January in the Volkskrant is uncritical with respect to the proposition that CoolCat would run because it has to walk around in Bangladesh. Six own inspectors first According to a study by the Ethical Trading Initiative such self-control because not lead to substantial improvements. One reason is the lack of transparency: companies can freely hide abuses and successes peddling. Another receipt reason is that workers not be able to form unions and negotiate improvements themselves. Western businesses operating in Bangladesh to boast bandied about the importance of their own initiative, but st