TRADE unions and civil society groups delivered a joint letter to the Bangladeshi High Commission in London on Thursday to mark anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, calling on its government to address sweatshop workers’ wages and assure their trade union freedoms.

The event also included a moment’s silence to honour the lives of the 1,138 Bangladeshi garment workers who were killed when an eight-storey building collapsed due to a structural failure in 2013.

Unison, GMB, CWU and IWGB, Labour Behind the Label and War on Want, Amnesty International UK and No Sweat were among the unions and groups that took part in a rally outside the commission.