Bangladesh garment workers will get a 56.25 percent minimum wage increase starting Dec. 1. On Tuesday Monnujan Sufian, state minister of Labour and Employment, announced that the wage board agreed to ...
As thousands of workers continue to spill into the streets of Bangladesh in protest of the impending minimum wage increase, Miran Ali, an executive of the South Asian nation’s trade group for garment ...
New York (CNN) — Bangladesh has been gripped by violent protests for two weeks, as thousands of garment workers take to the streets to demand better wages for the country’s four million garment ...
December 19, 2025. Dhaka’s winter air was thick with tear gas, burned paper, and the lingering smell of destruction. Near ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — Authorities in Bangladesh announced a new salary structure on Tuesday for protesting garment factory workers with a 56% increase in the monthly minimum wage to $113 from the ...
Garment workers in Bangladesh currently make $95 a month producing clothes for big brands such as H&M, Zara and Levi’s. Workers are demanding $208 a month in wages. For comparison, that would still be ...