Almost 5,000 Bangladeshi garment workers sacked over strikes

[Nilgiri]

Exactly , that's why I am saying that it is unwise to compare their salary increase to compare with rikshaw pullers fare, as if the fare of rikshaw pullers increase that does not create burden on those garments workers , as they do not ride in rikshaws.

So rice , dal , vegetables , and other foods specially and then cloths and shelter and treatment are their main needs , not rikshaw riding !

So if you want to compare the prices , you will find that even peoples who are earning good amount of money they also can buy more goods now ( other than beef though as beef is the extreme case , but I wish soon this problem will be solved when we will be producing beef and dependency on India will be reduced ) .

But indeed minimum wage should be 12000 tk at least , no disagreement here . As with 12000 taka it's also hard to live a human life even for a single person in Bangladesh , specially it's almost impossible in Dhaka .

But let's give few years to @UKBengali , if they can increase the minimum wage to 12000 tk ( 2019 ; taka and dollar value ) after few years . They really should get a fair chance and they already got it ( as political field is empty now for them to score ). Now let's wait and see what development they can do for those poor folks !

@Skies

Yes 12,000 would be fairer (as I showed the current RMG wage/average worker output being really low in BD case) given CPI is eroding the household income:

https://opinion.bdnews24.com/2017/12/18/where-did-the-benefits-of-economic-growth-disappear/

BD govt should reduce its interventions in the economy (both minimum wage legislation AND bargaining suppression which are competing forces) and allow for better arena for bargaining power to take shape (so that say workers get renumerated around the ~ 50% of their estimated labour productivity output at least which is somewhat the norm I have seen in developing countries worldwide when better bargaining/balance allowed for...i.e 12,000 starting wage roughly).

That would resolve this issue far better (given effective/natural CPI price indexing + wage competition would be baked in far better organically)....but again it needs BD govt to forfeit another avenue of (giver and taker) power it has....and trust in the free market and the people more!...as you can see from the very statements of the BAL minister, they would rather optically project as being the be-all end-all reason for it.