Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, and the industrial district of Gazipur, on Tuesday 31 October to demand better wages. Workers get paid 8,300 takas, or $75, as monthly minimum wage and they often need to work overtime to make ends meet, labour unions and workers say. Protests erupted over the weekend after the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) offered to increase the monthly minimum wage by 25 per cent to reach $90, instead of the $208 demanded by the workers.
Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial district of Gazipur on Tuesday to demand better wages. Bangladesh is the second largest garment-producing country in the world after China with its nearly 3,500 factories where some 4 million workers are employed — most are women — according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, or BGMEA.
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