Group of a garment factory named Mahmud Denims Restricted in the Haritakitla deliver of Chandra in Kaliakair upazila, Gazipur, protested and blocked the Dhaka-Tangail toll road anxious their due wages.
The blockade began at 9am this day (28 November) causing traffic congestion stretching several kilometres on both aspect.
As traffic on this a must be pleased toll road connecting Dhaka to the country’s northern place got right here to a discontinuance, passengers and drivers faced indispensable difficulties.
The blockage also resulted in severe gridlock on shut by roads.
In step with the Industrial Police, legislation enforcement officials are negotiating with the factory owners and agitated workers to restore in style traffic float on the toll road.
Royes Uddin, officer-in-charge (OC) of Naojor Motorway Police Situation, mentioned, “Traffic on the Dhaka-Tangail toll road has been disrupted attributable to the roadblock by workers of a garment factory in Chandra, Kaliakair. Efforts are underway to barter with the workers and intention shut away them from the toll road. As soon as the workers plod away, traffic will resume.”
Police and workers reported that the explain erupted over unpaid dues, along side one month’s excellent wages for workers, provider advantages, and delayed salaries of six to 9 months for some factory officials.
Md Azad Rahman, an inspector of Gazipur Industrial Police-2, mentioned, “The factory used to be purported to pay the workers their dues this morning. Which potential, each and every novel workers and inclined employees who had left for other factories gathered at the premises. Nonetheless at 8:30am, the management presented they may be able to also no longer pay attributable to lack of funds, leading the workers to dam the toll road.”
The employees additional mentioned in August, they’d to stage a prolonged demonstration for unpaid wages, which had gathered to five months at that time. Though the owners settled some payments then, dues for some workers remained.
The factory authorities is doubtlessly no longer reached for comment but.
