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2023 Bangladesh Garment Workers Strike
The 2023 Bangladesh garments workers strike is a labor dispute between Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation and Bangladesh Garment industry, principally over wages. The strike is currently ongoing. Background The 4 million Bangladesh garment workers earn monthly wages starting at 8,300 taka ($75 US). The garment union has called for a raise to 23,000 taka ($209 US) monthly wage. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), which represents the garment industry, offered to increase the monthly minimum wage to 12,500 taka ($113 US) which the union rejected. Strike The strike began on October 23, 2023, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, causing over 600 factories to shut down. On November 4, striking garment workers clashed with the police at Ashulia, west of Dhaka. Where around 10,000 workers were picketing and attempted to prevent other workers from returning to their shifts, reportedly hurling stones and bricks at officers, factories, and trying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city in the world with a population of 8.9 million residents as of 2011, and a population of over 21.7 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. According to a Demographia survey, Dhaka has the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world, and is popularly described as such in the news media. Dhaka is one of the major cities of South Asia and a major global Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks 39th in the world and 3rd in South Asia in terms of urban GDP. As part of the Bengal delta, the city is bounded by the Buriganga River, Turag River, Dhaleshwari River and Shitalakshya River. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Garment And Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF)
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
