Garment workers from two factories in Gazipur’s Tongi deliver staged protests and halted work to push for his or her 13-level calls for.
On the 2nd day of advise this day (9 September), nearly 3,000 workers from Attire Export Village Restricted and Bravo Apparels staged the demonstrations at 9:00am within the BSCIC Industrial Home.
Confirming the protests, assistant superintendent of Gazipur industrial police, Mosharraf Hossain, stated, “Discussions are ongoing between worker representatives and factory owners to resolve the points. Extra valuable functions shall be supplied later.”
Syed Rafiul Karim, officer-in-label of Tongi East Police Build, stated “After discussions within the afternoon, the factory owners agreed to pay one month’s salary. They also assured that the somewhat a few calls for would possibly maybe well maybe be addressed. In consequence, the workers suspended their advise, and the factory used to be declared closed for the day, permitting the workers to skedaddle residence.”
Md Alamgir Hossain, deputy commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, stated, “Apparels Restricted used to be presupposed to pay salaries by the Seventh. On the opposite hand, as soon as they failed to enact so, the workers started protesting somewhat than becoming a member of work. After police intervened and negotiated with the owners, a brand new salary date of the 12th used to be agreed upon, which the workers current and then returned residence.”
The protesting workers’ calls for comprise payment of salaries by the Seventh of every month, rising attendance bonuses to Tk1,000, a 15% wage hike, consolidated payment for 18 days of annual skedaddle away, an discontinuance to mistreatment by factory workers, stopping the blacklisting of workers’ names, paying three months and 13 days’ salary if brushed aside, and rising tiffin and evening allowances, amongst others.
The protesting workers also emphasised that no worker or workers member would possibly maybe well restful face harassment, abuse, or oppression.
They insisted that the compliance department would possibly maybe well restful no longer be managed by any insist firm and that the rightful calls for of workers and workers representatives would possibly maybe well restful be taken significantly.
These calls for must be formally acknowledged thru a ogle, stated the workers.
They additional launched that they would proceed their protests except their calls for are met.
