The government is firmly committed to the Sustainability Compact and the welfare of millions of readymade garment (RMG) workers, said Commerce Secretary Mofizul Islam.

When the Accord and Alliance signed on different brands from all over the world after the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, they pledged that the factories that these brands will do business with will ensure safe working conditions for the workers.

The garments industry plays a crucial role in our economy. The welfare of the 4.2 million workers in this industry is vital for our achievement of middle-income status.

Garment workers have received a fair share of attention over the last few years due to their poor working conditions, low wages and benefits, and inadequate facilities at their factories of employment.

The workers of a closed readymade garment factory stage demonstration in Savar, on the outskirts area of Dhaka, demanding their four months’ arrears.

The magnitude of unrest in Bangladesh’s garments industry comes down after yesterday’s revision of wages and threats of factory closure.

Ten people are injured when police charge batons and use water cannons to disperse the readymade garment workers, who blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Ashulia protesting disparity in their new wage structure.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia says the law enforcers will take immediate action if any attempt is made to create anarchy centring the ongoing protests by garment workers over pay disparity.

A journalist of a private television channel is allegedly beat up by police during a chase and counter chase with protesting garment workers on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur.

At least 35 people, including 10 policemen, were injured as police and workers of a closed readymade garment factory clashed at Adamjee EPZ in Narayanganj city yesterday.

Garment workers of a factory blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for around five hours at Chhoydana Degerchala in Gazipur yesterday morning demanding arrears.

Four months into her pregnancy, Tahmina, 35, found herself under constant stress as she tried to meet the production quota in the RMG factory in Tejgaon where she had been working for the last four years.

Four people, including two RMG workers, travelling on the roof of a train were killed after being hit by the girder of a footbridge in Raninagar upazila of Naogaon in the early hours of yesterday.

An officer of a hosiery factory in Fatullah area of Narayanganj Sadar has allegedly been beaten dead by its two workers.

Workers of three readymade garment factories of Clifton Group put barricade on the Bayezid Bostami Road in Chittagong city, demanding their arrears that triggers around two kilometres gridlock on both sides of the road.

One-hundred workers of a garments factory had to take treatment at the hospital today after drinking water from the factory canteen.

Every year, there is a brouhaha surrounding wages and Eid bonuses of RMG workers; it is unfortunate that, this year, too, was no exception.

State Minister for Labour Mujibul Haque Chunnu asks the garment makers to clear salaries and festival bonus of their workers by July 10 and 14 respectively so that they can celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr smoothly.

Garment workers’ rights bodies call for immediate compensation of Rana Plaza victims and swift punishment for the culprits behind the world’s biggest workplace disaster on the second anniversary of Rana Plaza collapse.