RMG Worker's Right

RMG workers doubly denied The state’s overt bias towards the moneyed, protecting the garment factory owners, citing emergency power rules, discipline and damage to private property, would hardly benefit the overall condition of the industry or improve its competitiveness in the long run. It is foolish, shameful and imprudent, from a regime that intends to establish the rule of law and equitable justice, especially when it is the owners who are the principal offenders and violators of law and not the workers, writes Tanim Ahmed
THE conspiracy theory of external forces instigating garment workers into agitation resurfaced recently as thousands took to the streets at Mirpur in the capital. Such theories, almost always spun off by owners of readymade garment factories, indicate that they are in a state of denial about severe problems vis-à-vis compensation and facilities for workers............