Most factories open in Ashulia, Nabinagar-Chandra road still blocked by protesting workers

Most factories in the Ashulia Industrial Web page were launch as we advise with regular actions ongoing.

Nevertheless, in the morning, workers of Tex Metropolis Dinky, which used to be closed beneath Piece 13 (1) of the Labour Act, began protesting after the factory used to be closed and tried to rating chaos in front of the nearby factories in the Jirabo space of Ashulia, a source of the Industrial Police said.

The authorities of 12-14 factories in the Pukurpar and Kathgara areas of Jirabo were compelled to tell their factories closed, the source added.

Amongst the factories compelled to tell holiday are Picard Bangladesh Ltd, Southern Millennium Textile Ltd, Haesong Korea Ltd, Continental Dresses Ind Pvt Ltd, Taharat Knit Composite Ltd, Leatherex Footwear Ltd, and Ever Vivid Sweater Ltd.

Since Monday (30 September), workers of Birds Community were protesting by blocking Nabinagar-Chandra road on Baipail, Ashulia, tense fee of unprecedented dues.

The road has advance to a standstill in the face of continuing blockade by the employees.

For the time being, heavy site traffic jams on both facet of the road maintain extended to the Bishmile space of the Dhaka-Aricha twin carriageway.

A worker of Birds Community from the station of the blockade said, “I in level of fact were on the road for 3 days, silent no response from the proprietor.

“The police are telling us, ‘Give us the deal with of the proprietor, we are able to movement and rating him.’ The keep terminate we bag the deal with of the proprietor?”

When requested how long the road shall be blocked, the worker said this can proceed till their dues are cleared.

Any other worker said, 50 hours maintain handed and the distress has now now not been resolved from any facet. “Query the proprietor to pay us, we are able to movement away,” he said.

When contacted, Dhaka District Superintendent of Police Ahmed Mueed told The Alternate Well-liked, “We’re attempting our easiest to resolve the distress. The proprietor even switched off the cell telephone and ran away. We quiz the employees to vacate the road in explain that the road instances shall be normalised. We’re looking out to resolve the instruct thru discussions with all events and hope to resolve the instruct by noon as we advise.”

Workers of Birds Community began protesting by blocking the road in front of DOHS and at two aspects in Baipail at 9:30am Monday (30 September) to inquire fee of unprecedented dues.

Later, the aggrieved workers retreated from the front of the DOHS, however the employees took a situation in the Baipail space and started a deliver by blocking the road, which is silent going on.

On 27 August, Birds Community issued a search for pointing out that the continuing Russia-Ukraine warfare and the enviornment economic downturn had left the factory with out work for a long length.

Regardless of constant operations at a monetary loss, the management might now now not rating current work orders, which used to be beyond their retain watch over.

Due to this, on 28 August, the community presented the shutdown of all sections of RNR Fashions Ltd, Birds Dresses Ltd, Birds Fedrex Ltd, and Birds A & Z Ltd.