# Prof. Michael Posner on the Bangladesh factory safety plan from US brands

1 Faculty News July 10, 2013 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-walmart-target-bangladesh-factory-safety-plan-20130710,0,1384861.story) -- "The safety goals represent 'a collective step forward' by American retailers, said Mike Posner, a business and human rights professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'But it does not make sense for there to be two competing initiatives, an American one and a European one, that run the risk of duplication and confusion at the local factory level,' he said in a statement."

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