Garment workers confine top executives for arrears, pay hike
Unb, Savar
Workers of a garment factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) yesterday confined their top executives inside the factory for hours demanding wage hike and payment of arrears.Over 1,500 workers of the foreign-owned garment factory, Ownerway, began work abstention in the afternoon and confined the top executives. A worker of the factory told newsmen that the authorities had recently increased the wages of 300 out of 1,600 workers of the unit. The workers became agitated yesterday following a declaration from the owners that the wages of the remaining 1,300 workers would not be increased. At one stage, the aggrieved workers stopped working and closed the doors and windows of the factory, keeping the top executives confined. The workers set free the executives after getting an assurance from the owners that they would resolve the problem through discussion today, said a police official when contacted over cellphone from Dhaka. Police and Rab rushed to the spot to avert any untoward incident.
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