BANGLADESH: GARMENT BOSSES BLOCK FACTORY RE-OPENING UNLESS STRIKE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
June 1st, 2012
BY POORNA RODRIGO
Bangladesh garment factory owners have refused to reopen factories closed in the country's troubled Ashulia industrial zone, despite the government forging a deal with striking textile and clothing workers on Monday, raising their minimum wage by 50%. Businesses are upset that protestors vandalised factories and their vehicles during the dispute and want the offenders brought to book.
"We want to see a proper inquiry done by the government into all these vandalism before reopening the factories," president of the Bangladesh Garment ...
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