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Bangladesh garment workers set for 77% pay rise
Source: The Guardian
Bangladesh garment workers set for 77% pay rise
Jason Burke in Delhi
theguardian.com, Thursday 14 November 2013 16.08 GMT
Wages for Bangladeshi garment factory workers are set to rise after owners said they had agreed to a proposed 77% increase in the minimum wage.
The powerful businessmen who run many of the factories in the country, the world's second biggest exporter of clothes after China, had initially opposed demands for higher wages.
The official wage board in the chaotic, overcrowded and politically unstable south Asian state had proposed 5,300 takas (£43) a month as the minimum wage after a string of fatal factory accidents this year highlighted poor pay and conditions.
In April 1,130 people died when a factory complex where garments for European retailers such as Benetton, Matalan and Primark were made collapsed.
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Jason Burke in Delhi
theguardian.com, Thursday 14 November 2013 16.08 GMT
Wages for Bangladeshi garment factory workers are set to rise after owners said they had agreed to a proposed 77% increase in the minimum wage.
The powerful businessmen who run many of the factories in the country, the world's second biggest exporter of clothes after China, had initially opposed demands for higher wages.
The official wage board in the chaotic, overcrowded and politically unstable south Asian state had proposed 5,300 takas (£43) a month as the minimum wage after a string of fatal factory accidents this year highlighted poor pay and conditions.
In April 1,130 people died when a factory complex where garments for European retailers such as Benetton, Matalan and Primark were made collapsed.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/bangladesh-garment-workers-pay-rise
