RMG worker

What's causing the unrest among factory workers?

Kalpona Akter, labour rights activist and president of Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, talks to The Daily Star.
3 November 2024, 04:00 AM

The underprivileged worker is not a machine

Even with low productivity, a Bangladeshi worker working an average of 14-15 hours a day produces $1,400 or more a month.
14 November 2023, 01:00 AM

Who will answer for Rasel’s death?

Who gave them the power or direction to shoot protesters in the first place?
31 October 2023, 12:15 PM
9 January 2023, 17:00 PM

RMG workers block road over arrears

The workers of a garment factory blocked a road in Hemayetpur area of ​​Savar demanding their salaries yesterday.Nearly a thousand workers of Raquef Apparels Washing and Packaging Industries Ltd blocked ​​Hemayetpur-Singair road at Tetuljhora area around 3:30pm, said Dhaka Industrial Police-1 assistant sub-inspector Korban Ali.
22 August 2022, 18:00 PM

RMG worker beaten to death for ‘theft’

Employees of a readymade garment factory in Rampura beat a factory worker dead following allegations of theft yesterday. RMG workers took to the street in protest and blocked the DIT Road for two-and-a-half hours yesterday afternoon, triggering tailbacks.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM

RMG worker beaten to death in Malibagh over ‘theft’

A worker of a ready-made garment (RMG) factory dies after he is severely beaten on allegation of theft in Malibagh area of Dhaka.
25 July 2019, 11:47 AM

Rape of RMG Worker: 4 transport workers get life term

A Tangail court yesterday awarded four transport workers with life imprisonment for raping a garment worker in a moving bus in the district’s Dhanbari upazila in 2016.
22 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Ashulia RMG workers on hunger strike

Workers of a garment factory, who have been terminated allegedly for protesting sexual harassment of a fellow worker, started an indefinite hunger strike in Jamgor area of Ashulia.
27 April 2019, 07:46 AM

Woman 'raped' by eight men in Tangail

A group of eight men on Friday night allegedly gang-raped a ready-made garment worker after physically assaulting her husband.
13 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Suspended in name, ‘blacklisted’ for life

Arif Hossain* has been worried about his future since his name and photo was put on a list of “suspended” workers outside his garment factory in Ashulia in the middle of January.
4 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Worker killed in Savar clash

A garment worker was shot dead allegedly by police and at least 36 others were injured in separate clashes between garment workers and law enforcers at Savar yesterday.
8 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Mayhem in Malibagh as road crash kills two

The capital's Malibagh neighbourhood turned violent yesterday as garments workers went on a rampage -- vandalising and setting fire to vehicles -- and clashed with police following the death of two girls, including a garment worker in a road accident in the area.
1 January 2019, 18:00 PM

RMG worker gang-raped in moving bus

A 24-year-old woman was gang raped in a moving bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai Sunday night, police said.
9 April 2018, 18:00 PM

Most garment workers have no contract:Survey

More than 72 percent of the garment workers in Dhaka and Gazipur do not have any appointment letters, according to a survey conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation, a non-governmental organisation.
21 March 2018, 18:00 PM

RMG worker ‘gang-raped’ in Savar

A garment worker is reportedly gang-raped by four men including her boy friend in Hemayetpur area of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
17 May 2017, 14:39 PM

RMG worker burnt in acid attack dies

A garment worker, who was injured in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Savar, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
15 November 2015, 05:42 AM

2 impaired RMG workers killed as train hit them in Gazipur

Two physically challenged readymade garment workers are killed as a train hit them in Gazipur.
9 October 2015, 05:27 AM

100 RMG workers fall sick ‘drinking water’ at factory

One-hundred workers of a garments factory had to take treatment at the hospital today after drinking water from the factory canteen.
9 September 2015, 11:29 AM

100 workers sick drinking factory water in Ashulia

Over a hundred workers of a garment unit fall sick after drinking the factory’s supply water in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
26 April 2015, 04:45 AM