Why crack down on workers who are demanding their dues?
The reaction of the owners to the workers' legitimate demand, however, has been totally unacceptable.
The workers protesting for a minimum wage of Tk 25,000, but those in power are concocting ways to thwart this mission.
Reports of GBV, harassment in factories can no longer be ignored
Lack of progress in the trial process is deeply upsetting
We need to find a way to hold brands accountable
The Bangladesh Garments Workers Unity Council (BGWUC) today demanded that the monthly minimum salary of the garment workers to be hiked by 175 per cent to Tk 22,000 from the existing Tk 8,000.
Some garment manufacturers are providing basic commodities to their workers at discounts opening shops on factory premises, bringing some relief amidst the skyrocketing of prices in the local markets.
The truth is that women are at risk of violence regardless of whether they work in homes, factories, fields or offices.
Garment workers of a factory blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for around five hours at Chhoydana Degerchala in Gazipur yesterday morning demanding arrears.
Four months into her pregnancy, Tahmina, 35, found herself under constant stress as she tried to meet the production quota in the RMG factory in Tejgaon where she had been working for the last four years.
Four people, including two RMG workers, travelling on the roof of a train were killed after being hit by the girder of a footbridge in Raninagar upazila of Naogaon in the early hours of yesterday.
An officer of a hosiery factory in Fatullah area of Narayanganj Sadar has allegedly been beaten dead by its two workers.
Workers of three readymade garment factories of Clifton Group put barricade on the Bayezid Bostami Road in Chittagong city, demanding their arrears that triggers around two kilometres gridlock on both sides of the road.
One-hundred workers of a garments factory had to take treatment at the hospital today after drinking water from the factory canteen.
Every year, there is a brouhaha surrounding wages and Eid bonuses of RMG workers; it is unfortunate that, this year, too, was no exception.
State Minister for Labour Mujibul Haque Chunnu asks the garment makers to clear salaries and festival bonus of their workers by July 10 and 14 respectively so that they can celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr smoothly.
Garment workers’ rights bodies call for immediate compensation of Rana Plaza victims and swift punishment for the culprits behind the world’s biggest workplace disaster on the second anniversary of Rana Plaza collapse.
