When there is no pay, violence becomes the way...or does it?

Did you know that 80% of Bangladesh’s annual exports is manufactured clothing? It is worth over £10billion and mostly heads towards US and Europe to shops like Marks & Spencer and Wal-Mart. That’s a serious amount of money, a serious amount of clothing, and an even more serious number of garment workers behind the making of the clothes. Looking at that figure, you’d think the garment workers were getting paid, right? Surprise surprise, apparently not. The minimum wage was increased from £15 to £27 a couple of months ago for garment workers, but denial of wages has resulted in protests and severe violence in the capital city, Dhaka, resulting in 3 deaths. Where are the trade unions that support the garment workers? Is violence the only way to get their voices heard? Has it achieved anything?

See the full article here.

Image Credit- Mikael Marguerie on Flickr at Creative Commons