Bangladesh’s garment workers, undeniably, serve as an asset for the sector itself to be competitive and to support the economy. Surpassing country’s traditional export items, the garment products have experienced a quantitative leap in both the volume and value. Even the global economic recession could not perturb the growth; rather it kept on increasing, albeit at a slower rate. Why then the garment workers, Jakir Hossain asks, always find the sector’s pay and benefit structure unreasonable against the backdrop of spiralling prices of essentials?