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£7.54 per month

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Most experts on Bangladeshi working conditions, and even Tesco, agree that the figure for Bangladesh should be at least £22 per month (Tk 3000).Yet the starting wages in the six factories ... ranged from just £7.54 to £8.33 per month...

Nazera, working in a factory supplying Asda and Tesco, earns just £8.33 per month. ... Runa, whose factory supplies Asda, earns £7.95 per month, which she supplements with an extra £3.03 for overtime work.

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'The wages I get are not enough to cover the cost of food, house rent and medicine,' said Mohua in a factory supplying Asda and Tesco. Her colleague Humayun said, 'with my earnings it is difficult to meet living costs.'

Mohua and Humayun are amongst the better-paid sewing maching operators who earn more than average - in the region of £16 per month. Yet even this equates to just 5p an hour over the 80-hour week they regularly have to work.

(From Fashion Victims, by War on Want)
  • According to the Guardian, the eight directors who run Tesco earned £26m between them in 2003-2004.
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