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.
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.