As we went to press on 7 November, Bangladesh’s wage board was due to set a new figure for the minimum wage in the country’s garment industry. The week before saw a virtual uprising by the country’s garment workers, with hundreds of thousands on strike, militant mass demonstrations and a factory in industrial city Gazipur burned. Two deaths of workers have been reported, one of them of garment industry electrician Russel Hawlader, confirmed shot by the police.