garment worker
Rape on running bus: 5 transport workers remanded
Dhaka court places five transport workers on a three-day remand each in a case filed over a gang rape incident in a moving bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai.
RMG Unrest: No 'innocent' to be sacked
No “innocent” garment worker would be suspended, but those who got involved in criminal activities during the weeklong labour unrest would be punished, the BGMEA president said yesterday.
Rape on running bus: 5 transport workers remanded
Dhaka court places five transport workers on a three-day remand each in a case filed over a gang rape incident in a moving bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai.
3 held for ‘raping’ garment worker in Dhaka
Police have arrested three youths in connection with “raping” a garment worker in Mirpur area of Dhaka.
Eid allowance: RMG workers for payment before 20th Ramadan
Different garment workers' associations call upon the factory owners to pay the apparel workers’ salary and Eid allowance before the 20th Ramadan.
Six transport leaders sued for cover-up bid
Nine transport workers and leaders have been sued over the “gang-rape” of a female garment worker in a moving bus in Tangail on Friday.
RMG worker burnt in acid attack dies
A garment worker, who was injured in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Savar, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Trying to save child, man dies under train
A garment worker dies under a train when he tried to save a child standing on the rail tracks in Dhaka’s Banani area.
Protesting garment workers
IT is a story of aggrieved garment workers – with a difference! The ring of familiarity ends with their demand for payment of arrear salaries when this is drowned in the more strident chorus of serious grievances.
Let there be light
AT the beginning of the industrial revolution, a farmer was also able to make shoes, and the women spent their days making handmade pottery and spinning yarn or cloth.
Mourning the violence of capital(ism)
ON March 21, 2014, I received the news that Sumaya Khatun, my friend and comrade, a 16-year-old girl who used to work at Tazreen Garments, passed away after battling a cancerous tumour for over a year.