RMG
RMG workers block highway in Gazipur for salary
Agitating garment workers in Gazipur block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway demanding their salaries and festival bonus for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
18 September 2015, 10:03 AM
100 workers fall sick at Gazipur RMG factory
100 workers of a readymade garment factory fall sick for unknown reason at Jarun in Konabari area of Gazipur area.
12 September 2015, 06:51 AM
Ctg RMG workers’ blockade causes 4km gridlock
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.
9 September 2015, 14:14 PM
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
Supreme Court lifts ban on Rana Plaza movie
Supreme Court clears way for release and screening of movie Rana Plaza, which is based on the miraculous rescue of garment worker Reshma 17 days into the 2013 collapse of the building in Savar.
6 September 2015, 06:43 AM
USAID to give $18m for RMG factory upgradation
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides $18 million for factory upgradation in the garment industry, the lifeline of Bangladesh economy.
3 September 2015, 13:30 PM
Please, Mr Minister
Sitting in a factory in Guangzhou trying to order fire doors for the factories is no fun.
9 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Export tax rises to 1pc
Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his budget speech proposes an increase of tax at source for all export sectors to 1 percent.
4 June 2015, 15:44 PM
Call for Rana Plaza victims’ compensation
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.
24 April 2015, 06:41 AM
Let there be light
AT the beginning of the industrial revolution, a farmer was also able to make shoes, and the women spent their days making handmade pottery and spinning yarn or cloth.
23 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Post-Rana Plaza initiatives and sustainability of the RMG sector
THE tragedy that took place on April 24, 2013 in a suburb of Bangladesh, a few miles away from the capital, became a global tragedy.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Garment worker's death in road crash sparks protest in Narayanganj
Garment workers set a bus afire after it ran over one of their colleagues in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj this morning. Agitating workers also vandalised at least 10 vehicles, witnesses say.
28 March 2015, 05:41 AM