Kalpona Akter, labour rights activist and president of Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, talks to The Daily Star.
Even with low productivity, a Bangladeshi worker working an average of 14-15 hours a day produces $1,400 or more a month.
Who gave them the power or direction to shoot protesters in the first place?
Behind the scenes of ‘Made in Bangladesh’
The workers of a garment factory blocked a road in Hemayetpur area of Savar demanding their salaries yesterday.Nearly a thousand workers of Raquef Apparels Washing and Packaging Industries Ltd blocked Hemayetpur-Singair road at Tetuljhora area around 3:30pm, said Dhaka Industrial Police-1 assistant sub-inspector Korban Ali.
Employees of a readymade garment factory in Rampura beat a factory worker dead following allegations of theft yesterday. RMG workers took to the street in protest and blocked the DIT Road for two-and-a-half hours yesterday afternoon, triggering tailbacks.
A worker of a ready-made garment (RMG) factory dies after he is severely beaten on allegation of theft in Malibagh area of Dhaka.
A Tangail court yesterday awarded four transport workers with life imprisonment for raping a garment worker in a moving bus in the district’s Dhanbari upazila in 2016.
Workers of a garment factory, who have been terminated allegedly for protesting sexual harassment of a fellow worker, started an indefinite hunger strike in Jamgor area of Ashulia.
Arif Hossain* has been worried about his future since his name and photo was put on a list of “suspended” workers outside his garment factory in Ashulia in the middle of January.
A garment worker was shot dead allegedly by police and at least 36 others were injured in separate clashes between garment workers and law enforcers at Savar yesterday.
The capital's Malibagh neighbourhood turned violent yesterday as garments workers went on a rampage -- vandalising and setting fire to vehicles -- and clashed with police following the death of two girls, including a garment worker in a road accident in the area.
A 24-year-old woman was gang raped in a moving bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai Sunday night, police said.
More than 72 percent of the garment workers in Dhaka and Gazipur do not have any appointment letters, according to a survey conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation, a non-governmental organisation.
A garment worker is reportedly gang-raped by four men including her boy friend in Hemayetpur area of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
A garment worker, who was injured in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Savar, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Two physically challenged readymade garment workers are killed as a train hit them in Gazipur.
One-hundred workers of a garments factory had to take treatment at the hospital today after drinking water from the factory canteen.
Over a hundred workers of a garment unit fall sick after drinking the factory’s supply water in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
