RMG workers block Dhaka-Sylhet highway
Tree branches set alight on Dhaka-Sylhet highway yesterday during a blockade enforced by workers of Harvest Rich, a ready-made garment factory in Narayanganj, demanding payment of their arrear wages. Photo: Focus Bangla
Workers of a ready-made garment factory in Narayanganj blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway for about three hours early yesterday and vandalised at least seven vehicles, demanding payment of their wage arrears. The workers withdrew the blockade around 11:45am after the authorities concerned agreed to pay off the arrears today, said Mahbub Alam, director of Industrial Police-4 of Adamjee. Around 6,000 workers of Harvest Rich staged a demonstration inside the factory at Bhulta in Rupganj upazila around 8:00am, Atiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Rupganj Police Station, quoted witnesses as saying. The agitating workers threw stones at the glass windows of the factory building and those of Rupali Bank's Bhulta branch office, the OC said. Police tried to disperse them with tear gas shells when they took to streets around 9:00am and threw brickbats at police, added the OC. The workers were also demanding an increase in attendance allowance from Tk 150 to Tk 300.
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