Factory owners say a dollar an hour is too much to pay the people who make our clothes
On August 29, the Minimum Wage Board for Bangladesh’s garment industry will come together to set the new minimum wage for an industry that employs four million people. Garment workers in the country have been demonstrating for a desperately needed increase in the minimum wage since 2016. In the course of these peaceful protests, more than 1,500 workers were fired by factory owners in retaliation, and hundreds of workers faced unsubstantiated criminal charges. During December 2016 to February 2017, 34 garment workers, union leaders and labor rights advocates were...
