RMG workers blocked road demanding salary hike, due payment

Traffic movement on the key Shyamoli road in capital city Dhaka remained suspended for two hours as readymade garments workers staged demonstration demanding salary hike and payment of due wages.

Several hundred workers of Dynamic Fashion Limited staged a sit-in on Shyamoli road and demonstrated to press home their demands including salary hike, citing Inspector (investigation) of Adabor Police Station Selim Hossain as saying the United News of Bangladesh report said.

Vehicular movement on the busy road stretching from Shyamoli to Kalyanpur remained halted for about two hours during the protests.

On information, police rushed in and removed the workers from the road.

Dynamic Fashions Ltd, established in 1996, mainly produces shirts. Its products are exported to countries like Netherlands, Belgium, UK, and the US, according to Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB).

The factory has an inspection listing under Accord and has a Workers Participation Committee (WPC). Most of its workers are female.

Quoting Traffic Inspector Osman Gani, the Daily Star adds: around 800 workers of a local garment factory came down to the road around 9:50 AM, blocking one of the busiest roads in the capital.

Due to the blocking, long tailbacks were created from Panthapath, Kalabagan up to Amin Bazar, the report added.

Bangladesh marked repeated movements of garments workers in capital city Dhaka in the recent years demanding salary hike and payment of due wages.

New York-based rights watchdog in its Tuesday report entitled “World Report 2020” said that at least 7,500 garment workers in Bangladesh were dismissed from their jobs in the largest crackdown on workers who took part in demonstrations.

Kamruzzaman