Frustration Grows Among Bangladesh Garment Workers Despite Wage Hike

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Last updated on November 13th, 2023 at 06:53 am

Bangladesh government recently declared a new pay shape for garment manufacturing unit people, elevating the month-to-month minimum salary by fifty six percent.

But this choice has left some worker companies feeling annoyed and unsatisfied. The announcement was made through State Minister for Labour and Employment Monnujan Sufian after a meeting of a central authority-shaped salary board, consisting of representatives from each factory proprietor and workers.

The new pay shape is set to take impact from December 1. This move comes in the wake of large protests, marking the maximum significant wage-associated demonstrations in Bangladesh inside the past decade.

The unrest commenced when the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association proposed a 25 percent increase within the monthly minimum salary.

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The preceding adjustment to the minimal salary changed in 2018. Tens of hundreds of workers took to the streets, stressing a better month-to-month minimum salary of 8.

The protests escalated, resulting in the torching of four factories, two worker casualties, and clashes with the police, blocking highways. The frustration amongst people changed into palpable as they sought an extra extensive growth in wages.

Earlier on the same day as the salary hike assertion, tensions rose as police fired tear gas at lots of people who had set a bus on fire outside Dhaka. The industrial metropolis of Gazipur additionally experienced violence as around 6,000 employees staged protests and walked out in their vegetation. Despite the authorities’ attempt to cope with the people’ issues with a salary hike

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Wrighter covers news across the global on Human Rights, Migrants Rights, and Labor Rights. Wrighter has vast experience in writing and is a doctor by profession.

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Wrighter covers news across the global on Human Rights, Migrants Rights, and Labor Rights. Wrighter has vast experience in writing and is a doctor by profession.

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