RMG unrest
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I am a 'social engineer' working for twelve years with various rights based NGOs. I mentioned here 'social engineer' because like an engineer we the NGO workers work for resolving social problems applying social engineering tools. As part of the social work, a social engineer can work for finding out a solution to different social problems for building a violence free healthy society. As a social engineer, I have been observing workers' unrest and violence in the garment sector. I think that it is not impossible to resolve such frequent problems. While studying towards my MBA degree at BRAC University, I and some of my fellow-mates discussed about the garment unrest and I shared with them that the problem of garment unrest takes place due to lack of proper HR management system that ignores the grievances of hundreds of workers working in this sector. My thinking got support after a few days when some experts at a roundtable discussion pointed out the same thing that the garment owners do not accept good suggestions seriously as a problem-solving tool to avert unrest in their business establishments. Against the backdrop, the garment owners should set up a 'Grievance Sharing Centre' to resolve the workers unrest prevailing for years. It means that workers will have a centre/place where they can share their grievances with trust and reliability and can depend on it for a reasonable solution.
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