DHAKA: On Saturday( Nov. 4) near the capital, striking Bangladeshi garment workers clashed with police as businesses reopened in defiance of a rally campaign calling for an almost increasing wage increase.
The US$ 55 billion in annual exports from South Asia are accounted for by Bangladesh’s 3,500 garment factories, which also supply many of the top fashion houses in the world, including H & amp, Zara, and Levi.
However, many of the four million workers in the sector, the vast majority of whom are females and whose monthly income begin at 8, 300 taka( US$ 75 ), are in appalling conditions.
According to the authorities, 600 businesses that were shut down over the course of the week reopened in the areas that had been hardest hit by the attack, which also caused some factories to be looted and set on fire.
However, after about 10,000 workers tried to stop their coworkers from going back to their shifts, fighting broke out in the industrial area of Ashulia, north of the funds Dhaka.
According to Mohammad Sarowar Alam, the captain of the Ashulia authorities,” they attempted to block roads and threw stones and bricks at officials and factories.”
He added that 1,500 members of the security forces had been stationed there and in the local Savar to maintain get.” We dispersed them by firing tear oil ,” he said.
Police at Sreepur, about 60 kilometers northwest of Dhaka, fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of protesters, seriously injuring a 35-year-old woman, according to police investigator Ibrahim Khalil.
The victim’s brother, Imran Khan, reported to AFP that she had received three rubber bullet wounds to the face.
After a year of violent demonstrations in the industrial neighborhood of Gazipur on the northern outskirts of Dhaka, workers even resumed their shifts.
” Government have assured us that they will increase our pay in a year.” We went back to the companies because of this, according to clothing employer Rokon Uzzaman.
” We don’t have any money saved. If we are unable to feed our families, how much can we maintain the opposition? He continued.