In the shadowy predawn hours, the air in Ashulia, a small industrial town on the outskirts of Dhaka, is thick with anticipation.
Following the Rana Plaza tragedy, a global movement arose, demanding accountability, justice, and systemic change for garment workers
The holidays for the garment workers will start in phases from April 20 as the Eid-ul-Fitr is likely to be celebrated on April 22.
No “innocent” garment worker would be suspended, but those who got involved in criminal activities during the weeklong labour unrest would be punished, the BGMEA president said yesterday.
Dhaka court places five transport workers on a three-day remand each in a case filed over a gang rape incident in a moving bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai.
Police have arrested three youths in connection with “raping” a garment worker in Mirpur area of Dhaka.
Different garment workers' associations call upon the factory owners to pay the apparel workers’ salary and Eid allowance before the 20th Ramadan.
Nine transport workers and leaders have been sued over the “gang-rape” of a female garment worker in a moving bus in Tangail on Friday.
A garment worker, who was injured in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Savar, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
IT is a story of aggrieved garment workers – with a difference! The ring of familiarity ends with their demand for payment of arrear salaries when this is drowned in the more strident chorus of serious grievances.
AT the beginning of the industrial revolution, a farmer was also able to make shoes, and the women spent their days making handmade pottery and spinning yarn or cloth.
ON March 21, 2014, I received the news that Sumaya Khatun, my friend and comrade, a 16-year-old girl who used to work at Tazreen Garments, passed away after battling a cancerous tumour for over a year.
