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Conspiracy in garment unrest: PM's adviser

Star Business Report
Both internal and external forces are involved in the labour unrest in the readymade garment sector, said the prime minister's economic affairs adviser yesterday.
Mashiur Rahman was briefing reporters after attending a seminar that focused on the comparative performance of Bangladeshi, Cambodian and Kenyan readymade garment industries, at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).
The BIDS and the Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organisation jointly organised the seminar where Mohammad Yunus, a senior research fellow of BIDS, presented the keynote paper.
The wage board has recommended a minimum wage structure keeping options for a further review within two
weeks, Rahman said.
If the workers have any argument, they can go to the board for further discussion, he added.
"But the workers should not go on a rampage destroying people's property.”
The adviser said it is true that the global recession slashed the prices of garment items and reduced RMG factory owners' reluctance to pay more to workers.
While presenting his keynote paper, Yunus said it should be in the employers' own interest to provide for a minimum standard of living that ensures workers efficiency.
On the issue of exporters' profit sacrifice, he said it is to be determined based on reliable estimates of their net earnings and wages and profits shares.
"It will serve the owners' long-run interest to come up with objective and
reliable evidence in this regard," the senior researcher said.
On conspiracy issues, he asked if that was true, the question is why and how the conspirators and saboteurs enter the scene.
"Is it not rational for international competitors to instigate labour unrest when they have to pay higher wages to their workers?" Yunus asked.
He suggested the paymasters in the sector follow wage indexation policies at least partially.
"Otherwise, the current tension will recur in a couple of years in the wake of rising inflation.
The proposed minimum wage rate of Tk 3,000 will be less than the current minimum wage in real term in five or six years with a 6 percent inflation rate," he said.
Dr Rushidan Islam Rahman, director general of BIDS, chaired the seminar.