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Workers at three garment factories in Ashulia, Dhaka, went on strike again on Tuesday demanding arrears and 100 percent wages. One of the factory workers was reportedly assaulted.
Speaking to industrial police and workers, it became known that fashionable knitwear workers in the Jamgarh area went to the factory on Tuesday morning and started working. Shortly after work began, they demanded an additional 2,500 in April at either a 100% salary or a 75% salary announced by the government. As the authorities refused to meet their demands, the workers stopped working and took up positions inside the factory.
Some knitwear workers said a factory owner next to them had paid an additional 2,500 rupees to each worker at the government-announced 75 percent salary. If the factory owner can pay, their factory owner will also have to pay that additional amount.
Saad Knitwear workers in the Bagbari area joined the job on time yesterday. Later, they left the factory around 10 a.m., demanding a 100 percent salary. Some factory workers complained that some people had assaulted some workers when leaving the factory.
Meanwhile, more than three hundred knitwear workers in the Jamgarh area staged a protest outside the factory around 9 a.m. yesterday, demanding wage arrears. They were supposed to pay their wages on Tuesday. These workers did not receive the partial salary allocation for the month of March. Furthermore, no worker was paid in April.
Knitwear workers complained that their factory was closed without paying their wages and benefits. Since then, they have been circulating in various ways with the promise of a salary. Speaking next to the owner, the industrial police promised to pay them on Tuesday. Consequently, they appeared in front of the factory on Tuesday morning. At that time they protested without finding any owner or industrial police.
An industrial police official said workers at the two factories staged a protest on Tuesday demanding 100% wages. By talking to the workers about this, they are trying to get them back to work.
Regarding the guarantee of payment of wages and subsidies to knitwear workers, the official said that they are trying to pay workers’ wages by talking to the owners.
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