IndustriALL Global Union has criticised the recently announced minimum wage of Taka 12,500, deeming it “insufficient to meet the daily needs of garment workers and their families.”
The union is urging a revision of the wage, with Atle Hoie, the general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, expressing this concern in a letter to Minimum Wage Board chairman Liaquet Ali Mollah recently.
Representing over fifty million workers in mining, energy, and manufacturing sectors worldwide, including Bangladesh, IndustriALL Global Union stresses the inadequacy of the proposed minimum wage to sustain the livelihoods of garment workers and their families.
The letter emphasises the urgent need for a reconsideration of the wage rate.
The state minister for labour had proposed Taka 12,500 as the minimum wage on 7th November, following two weeks of worker agitation against the factory owners’ initial proposal of Taka 10,400.
The workers had demanded a minimum wage of Taka 23,000.
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