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Mirpur Road blocked over RMG worker’s death
Dhaka: Garment workers have halted traffic for an hour on Begum Rokeya Sarani in Mirpur following death of a co-worker in a road accident.
RMG unrest rocks capital over workers’ wage demand
FE Report
Tens of thousands of garment workers Sunday clashed with law enforcers, damaged factories, torched vehicles and blockaded highways over the demand of increased wages as the country’s key apparel industrial belts were jolted in greater Dhaka. The mayhem injured nearly 100 people.
Owners termed the violence illogical and unexpected, saying that about 95 per cent of them have implemented the new wages, which, however, were strongly rejected by union leaders.
Hundreds of riot police personnel guarding the factories at Dhaka, Savar, Rupganj and Ashulia fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells and charged the demonstrators with baton to shove them away from the highways a day after the Korean Youngone company shut down all of its 17 units following wildcat protests.
Envoy, Starlink factories vandalized 300 workers, 25 cops injured at Savar, Fatullah as clashes escalate
At least 300 readymade garment workers and 25 police personnel were injured when the workers clashed with police at several points on EPZ-Abdullahpur road in Savar and on Dhaka-Narayanganj link road at Fatullah in Narayanganj yesterday, demanding cancellation of the newly announced pay scale.
The agitating workers demanded Tk 5,000 as minimum monthly wage and its implementation from August 1.
Witnesses said, at first the workers of Shed Session Garments Factory at Jamgara ransacked its valuables and took to the street. Later, thousands of workers from 20 garment factories, including Envoy Garments and Starlink Garments, from the area gathered there around 11:00 am and blocked the road, creating a huge traffic jam.
Govt won’t allow anarchy in RMG sector: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday warned that the government will not tolerate any anarchy and destructive activities in the garment sector, reports UNB.
She said tough action would be taken against the people who are creating anarchic situation in the readymade garment (RMG) sector over the minimum wage.
The Prime Minister administered the caution while opening two BGMEA projects at the Bangabandhu Poverty Alleviation Complex at Tungipara through tele-conference from Ganobhaban.
PM’s Deputy Press Secretary Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters on the tele-conference of the Prime Minister who cancelled her visit to Tungipara due to bad weather.
RMG protests enter 3rd day
Dhaka, Aug 1 (bdnews24.com) — Garment workers have taken to the streets for the third consecutive day, with hundreds of RMG workers laying siege to the Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Ashulia demanding a minimum wage of Tk 5,000.
Police officials report that over one thousand RMG workers came out on the roads at Jamgara in Ashulia bringing the traffic to a halt.
Clashes erupted in the Jamgara area when police tried to disperse the protesters off the streets.
Faced with another day of protests against the newly announced payscale, over 300 garment factories have closed down their operations for the day.
New pay scale rejected: 20 arrested RMG workers on rampage
Garment workers in the city’s different industrial belts staged demonstrations on Friday rejecting the just announced new pay scale of Tk 3,000 instead of demanded Tk 5,000.
The agitated hundreds of workers took to the streets in the morning and vandalised some banks and shopping malls at Gulshan, and damaged a number of vehicles at Tejgaon area. They also set on fire a private car and a motobike.
Amid the rampage, traffic from Satrasta to Mohakhali crossing road, Bijoy Sarani, Tejgaon Link Road, Gulshan Link Road and Gulshan circle-1 halted for several hours. The agitation continued from 8:30 am to around 12:45 pm.
Gazipur workers block highway over death rumour
Gazipur, July 30 (bdnews24.com) — Readymade garment workers vandalised around 10 vehicles on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway and blocked the busy road for around half an hour over a rumour of a co-worker’s death in a road accident.
Benu Akter alias ‘Fatema’, 30, a worker of Liz Apparels at Targachh in Gazipur, was injured seriously in the accident while coming back from work at around 10:15pm on Friday.
Serious gridlock hampered traffic on the road following the accident. Naozor highway police check-post’s sergeant Mostafizur Rahman said that a bus on its way to Gazipur hit Fatema who was crossing the road.
New pay structure effective from Nov 1 : Govt announces Tk 3,000 minimum monthly wage for RMG workers
The government yesterday formally announced a new monthly minimum wage for the workers of the readymade garment industries at Tk 3,000.
Labour and Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain made the announcement at a press briefing at his ministry as the Minimum Wage Board handed over the new wage structure to the minister formally.
According to the submission, the minimum wage for apprentice workers will be at Tk 2,500.
The structure will be effective from November 1 after completion of legal procedures, the minister said.
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