Ashulia RMG factories reopen, Bangladesh

Over a hundred police personnel were deployed in and around the problem-prone garment factories in Kathgora, Pukurpar and Ashulia areas yesterday, an official at Ashulia Police Station said.

The workers passed a usual busy day without any interruption from the miscreants, she said, adding: "Textown Group will open their factory tomorrow."

The incidents started in the garment factory of Textown Group Thursday night when payment of the workers' salaries was being delayed.

The company usually pays its factory workers on the 10th of the next month, but failed to pay February's salaries on March 10, and promised to pay the next day.

When the workers did not get their salaries on Thursday night either, they started ransacking the factory at around 8:00pm.

Witnesses said around 2,000 workers went on rampage, breaking windowpanes, furniture, and machinery from the ground floor to the fifth floor of the factory building.

The clashes that continued from Thursday night to Friday morning left at least 50 persons injured resulting work suspension in at least 50 factories on Friday.

The workers ransacked at least six factories in Kathgora and Pukurpar, vandalised 15 vehicles and set ablaze factory materials.

Source: Star Business