BANGLADESHI textile bosses have pleaded with Western clothing giants to keep doing business with them after nearly 400 people died in a factory collapse as hopes of finding more survivors faded.
The tragedy has once again focused attention on the poor safety conditions in the $US20 billion ($A19.53 billion) Bangladeshi garment industry, which is the world's second biggest after China.
Britain's Primark and Spain's Mango have acknowledged their products were made in the block. Italy's Benetton acknowledged having its clothes made in Rana Plaza recently, but claimed it was a "one-time order".
Worried that Western firms could look elsewhere, manufacturers met with representatives of leading brand names on Monday in a bid to assure them about safety standards.
Shahidullah Azim, a vice president of the Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association which represents more than 4500 factories, said firms such as H&M, Gap, C&A and Li and Fung would be present at the meeting in Dhaka.
"We want to assure them that we're taking action to prevent a repeat of such tragedies," said Azim.
"We'll seek their understanding and will also request them not to cancel orders and shipments," he told AFP. "We need their help - they are part of us."
A fire at another factory last November in the industrial hub of Ashulia, where clothing for the likes of Walmart was being made, killed 111 people.
The industry accounts for 80 per cent of the country's exports and more than 40 per cent of the country's industrial workforce.
A typical textile worker earns less than $40 a month, with most working around 10 hours a day, six days a week.
Managers at all of the country's garment factories gave workers the weekend off in the hope that anger over the disaster would subside.
But police and unions said there was a mass walk-out in Ashulia, which is on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, soon after the reopening on Monday morning and workers then began a protest march.
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