Bangladesh, the second-largest garment-producing country in the world after China, witnessed protests over the weekend after BGMEA offered to increase the monthly minimum wage by 25% to reach USD 90, instead of the USD 208 demanded by the workers. Currently, Bangladesh has nearly 3,500 factories with some four million workers employed, mostly women, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, or BGMEA data. They get 8,300 takas or USD 75 as their monthly minimum wage but often need to work overtime to make ends meet, labor unions and workers said as quoted by The Associated Press. Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets
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