UNIONS DEMAND MORE AS BANGLADESH SETS NEW MINIMUM WAGE FOR KNIT WORKERS
November 1st, 2018
BANGLADESH’S unions have yet to be satisfied by an increase in the country’s minimum wage, which was published in a government gazette on October 8, hiking minimum wages for entry-level knitwear workers by 51% to USD95-a-month from December, up from the USD63 set in 2013.
On October 21, IndustriAll Bangladesh Council (IBC), an affiliate of the Geneva-based IndustriAll Global Union, submitted its objection letter to the wage board, which was formed in January, pushing for an upward revision of the wages to USD143 (Bangladesh Taka BDT12,020) a month. This ...
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