Bengaluru: Garment workers demand an end to wage discrimination

The Union of Clothing and Textile Workers (GATWU), which demanded to end the wage discrimination of clothes workers, asked the state government to provide honorable working conditions during a congress of clothing workers in the city on Sunday and abolish new labor codes.

President Gatwu Prathibha pointed out that other planned industries were wages about 18,000 about 18,000 wages per month, while clothing workers are still stuck at 12,800. “The latest minimum wage notification published in April 2025 shocking industries, such as the clothes concentrated by women, and proposed a minimum wage for other industries,” he said. He questioned how such a discrimination could be made and was terminated.

AICCTU Vice President Nirmala, the contract declared a warning to the government. “If discrimination against clothing workers continues – if they are excluded from wage revisions and they are forced into unaily, exploitative working conditions – minced workers will go to the streets and take their rights”.