Workers have attacked and vandalised four garments factories in Dhaka's Mirpur-14 area, demanding full bonus and 10-day Eid holiday. They also blocked a road in Mirpur-14 for two hours from 10:00am, disrupting transport movement in the area. Witnesses said workers of a factory in the area started demonstration around 9:00am and vandalised the building to press home their
25pc garment factories shed jobs despite receiving stimulus: CPD
This is breach of conditions as owners agreed while taking the funds that they won’t lay off workers Star Business Report Star Business Report
Twenty-five per cent of garment factories that received loans from the taxpayer-backed stimulus package retrenched workers in a breach of conditions, according to a study of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
The retrenchment indicates that the stimulus package could not guarantee jobs as many factories terminated workers. The factories had agreed that they would not lay off anybody while availing the stimulus fund.
The government has allocated Tk 10,500 crore to the garment industry as the stimulus package to help them pay wages and allowances to their workers since the crisis hit the country in March last year.
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Bangladesh needs to pay attention to explore new export destinations, including untapped markets in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Latin America and African regions, according to speakers at a webinar yesterday. "We are searching for new destinations, particularly in Africa, to increase garment and other exports through our missions abroad," said Commerce
Towards a transnational approach
The collapsed Rana Plaza building in 2013. Common Dreams/European Pressphoto Agency/Abir Abdullah
APRIL 24 marked the eighth anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building that housed five garment factories in Bangladesh. At the expense of capitalist greed in Bangladesh and worldwide, especially in the global south, garment workers are still dying. The Rana Plaza collapse was tragic not just because it killed more than 1,134 workers and injured more than 2,500, but because it could have been prevented as Bangladeshi garment workers had called attention to the cracked infrastructure of the building and made pleas with higher management to respond.