An estimated 50,000 garment workers rallied in Bangladesh on Saturday in their largest protest to date. The workers are seeking a pay increase from their current $38 a month to $103. The head of the garment workers union, Nazma Akhtar, spoke out in Dhaka.

Nazma Akhtar: “Today we are demanding 8,000 taka for the garment workers’ minimum wage. As you all know, the garments workers are earning 77 percent foreign currency in this country from the women workers, but our salary is very low. They are getting 3,000 taka. So now we are demanding 8,000 taka minimum wage for the garments workers.”

Bangladesh last raised its minimum wage for garment workers in 2010. The country’s garment industry has come under heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of the factory collapse that killed more than 1,100 garment workers in April and a fire that killed 112 last November.