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RMG workers go berserk

Vandalise factory for arrears; block busy road

Staff Correspondent
Several hundred garment workers, demanding arrears, vandalised a factory at Hajipara in the capital and barricaded the DU Road disrupting traffic for over an hour yesterday morning.
The agitating workers also held hostage the officials of the factory inside it for over eight hours. The authorities have closed the factory for today.
Witnesses said over 400 workers of Wills Group's Super Shaheen Garments Ltd went on the rampage at around 8:00am and vandalised the windowpanes and machinery on four floors of the five-storey factory'.
The agitating workers said they went into the action when they came to know that the factory' authorities would not pay their salaries on Wednesday' as the authorities promised on Tuesday evening.
Witnesses said the agitating workers took to the streets at around 10:00am and blocked the road in front of the factory'. A severe traffic jam was created on the road causing sufferings to thousands of people for over an hour.
Beauty' Begum, an operator of the factory, told The Daily Star that they staged demonstra- tions inside the factory earlier on Tuesday for their salaries of the month of September. In the evening the authorities, in presence of law enforcers, had assured them of paying the dues by Wednesday morning.
As the authorities were not keeping their promises, (hey opted for the agitation, she said.
"For the last six months, we have to stage demonstrations every month for realising our salaries", Beauty Begum alleged.
Mohammad Sohrab, maintenance manager of the garment factory, said "Since the Eid-ul-Fitr, we had received no foreign work orders and we are running the factory with subcontracts incurring losses. We can’t pay the salaries in time but we pay regularly the salaries of over 400 employees."
He said the agitating workers vandalised sewing machines, computers, furniture and windowpanes of the floors.
Officer-in-Charge Shiblee Noman of Ramna police station said on information they reached the spot and lifted the barricade at around 11:00am with the assurance that the authorities would disburse their salaries within few hours. He said the agitating workers also kept confined the officials in the factory and after the salaries of September ware disbursed; they were freed at around 4:30pm.
Police said the Wills Group laid off their garment Ever Shaheen last month, as they did not get work orders.