Police on Sunday filed a case against 2,000 to 3,000 unidentified people in connection with Saturday’s violent clash between police and workers in Tongi that left two people dead and 100 others injured.
Workers of a garment factory blocked Rokeya Sarani near Shewrapara in Mirpur for several hours from 3:00pm yesterday following the death of a female worker in a road accident.
Mauritius is sending back the male workers on completion of their contracts, but continues to hire female workers in readymade garment and fish packing factories, recruitment businesses said.
The government has asked the businessmen not to cut jobs in the readymade garment factories over the global recession.
National Garments Workers Federation bond a human chain at Muktangon demanding the arrest and fare judgment of the rapist of garments worker Jesmin Aktar.
At least 50 people were injured, including an Additional Police Super, during a clash between garments workers and police on Dhaka-Gazipur highway on Saturday following a road accident that injured a garment worker.
