RMG Sector
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In the face of agitation, owners increasing holidays for workers
To press home their demand for extending holidays during the Eid, some Mirpur-based RMG workers took to the streets on 8 May. Later, the movement sparked RMG workers of other localities.
RMG workers take to streets for holiday extension, police 'open fire, baton charge'
At least 12 readymade garment workers have been injured as police allegedly opened fire on them without any provocation at Millgate area of Tongi on the outskirts of the capital.
RMG workers' alliance demands wages, Eid bonus by 10 May
Garment Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (GSKOP), an alliance of 20 worker associations, on Friday demanded the payment of wages and Eid bonus by 10 May
May Day
Ensure health safety at the workplace
As the number of coronavirus cases has spiked at present, emphasis must be placed on health safety in all workplaces, including workers wearing masks and maintaining health and hygiene protocol in ...
RMG workers entangled in debt, says study
Wages in the readymade garment industry may have dropped, but the cost of living hasn't. This has got the RMG workers entangled in debt
Monnujan for payment of workers’ salaries, bonuses by 10 May
State minister for labour and employment Begum Monnujan Sufian on Thursday called for payment of salaries, festival allowances to workers in all sectors, including garments by 10 May.
BKMEA, Swisscontact ink deal to support Covid-hit RMG workers
Swisscontact and BKMEA have signed an agreement for the economic rehabilitation of RMG workers amid the pandemic
Rana Plaza disaster
Picturing Bangladesh
The pictures are painful – but then the event was extraordinarily painful, a national trauma that persisted long after the rubble had been cleared.
Brands urged to extend workers’ safety deal, eight years after Rana Plaza disaster
Labour leaders want the Accord to be renewed in Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest exporter of garments, and extended to other countries with dangerous working conditions
57pc Rana Plaza survivors remain unemployed: Survey
Nearly 57 per cent of the survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse have remained unemployed, according to a survey
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