Bangladesh police shoot striking garment workers

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Bangladesh police shoot striking garment workers

Just two days later, the appalling conditions facing the mostly female workforce in the country’s garment sweatshops, were underscored by a factory fire yesterday that claimed at least 24 lives. Workers were forced to jump from ninth-floor of the 10-storey factory north of Dhaka because the management had locked the exits.

The police attack took place after workers’ protests erupted last Friday, triggered by the refusal of some of Bangladesh’s 4,500 apparel factories to honour a pay deal between the government, employers and the trade unions in July. Under that deal, the minimum wage was to be lifted to about $US43 a month, still well below the poverty line and what workers had been demanding.

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