According to the report of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) on the evening of 12 February 2012 President and General Secretary of the Coats Bangladesh Ltd. Employees Union went to the Coats Head Office…to try and meet and discuss with company management possibilities of resolving an industrial dispute. Instead…company officials confiscated their mobile phones and forcibly detained them in their building overnight only releasing them when trade union colleagues alerted the local newspaper media of their disappearance…The workers at Coats Ltd are paid poverty wages of only BDT1,625 (US$18.90). The trade unions in Bangladesh consider BDT7,000 to be the minimum that could be considered a living wage…the employer remained intransigent and refused to bargain in good faith.