-Haoju Lu In 2023, China has witnessed a notable increase in the numbers of strikes in manufacturing, which have been triggered by a new wave of factory relocations and closure after the Covid pandemic. According to China Labor Bulletin (CLB – an organization that tracks workers’ collective actions in China), the number of strikes in…
This article was co-authored with Christie Miedema, campaigns and outreach coordinator at the Clean Clothes Campaign International Office. Garment worker protests, a brutal police crackdown, worker deaths, arrests and repression, and finally, an official minimum wage announcement that is far below living wage levels. For anyone who follows Bangladesh’s minimum wage negotiations, it’s like watching a preventable crash in slow-motion. There were similar worker protests and subsequent police