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
How much longer will RMG workers have to shoulder losses, but not profits?
Behind the scenes of ‘Made in Bangladesh’
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