In Bangladesh, textile workers are going on strike to obtain better working conditions

Paid around 70 euros a month for their hard work, Bangladeshi garment workers have decided to stage a mass strike on Monday 30 October 2023 to protest their poor working conditions.

Textile workers on strike for a salary of 190 euros

As reported Franceinfo, the Bangladeshi government created a wage commission in the spring to reevaluate them, ten years after the Rana Plaza collapse that left more than 1,000 dead. But these would be just empty promises.

Few changes have actually occurred since this disaster involving the responsibilities of the government and major international brands. The latter are intensifying their visits to clothing factories to demonstrate their good faith and are now denouncing the inertia of the State which “does not apply the annual revaluation laws in force”relay Franceinfo. According toAFPseveral Western brands expressed concern to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that workers’ salaries had not increased since 2019, despite inflation.

Waiting for this revaluation which does not arrive (23,000 taka or €190 per month is required instead of the current €70), violent clashes broke out between the police and the small hands of Bangladesh. According to local police, nearly 5,000 workers set up checkpoints in the capital’s Mirpur district. Fashion network. But according to theAFP, this number would be vastly underestimated. In this violent repression which damaged around forty factories, 2 workers were killed. Terrible proof, if any were still needed, that the clothes of the fast fashion they have blood on their hands.