T he reason why I defined them Golden Worker is not because the y work in gold industry, it’s because they help us earn US $12.4 billion representing almost 80 per cent of the country's export income by exporting quality garments. But we call them Garment Workers in the sense of negligibility and in some cases we use ‘garment worker’ as slang to address someone having low social class. A few days ago a team of my department visited a colony in Chittagong city where those workers live. We saw the brutality of reality, the harsh living conditions of those garment workers. You won’t believe how harsh it is. In a single congested room, there are two to three families. They all are cooking in the same room, they all are eating in the same room, and they all are sleeping in the same tiny room. Those who are bringing 80% of the country’s foreign currency are having a very poor standard of living. The visit makes the report of International Trade Union Confederation, a Vienna-based labo