The workers of ANTIM Knitting Dyeing and Finishing Ltd started the protests at Borpa in Tarabo on Tuesday. They returned home after the authorities promised to pay them by Thursday. Not being paid as promised, the protesters came back to the highway and blocked it at 1:30pm, burning tyres and raising slogans. Rupganj Upazila UNO Mamataz Begum said the police dispersed the protesters when they declined to heed her request to back off after 5:30pm. Rupganj Police Station OC Mahmudul Hasan said they talked to the factory authorities who promised to pay the workers via mobile financial services “soon”.

Source: bd News24 May 07, 2020 20:28 UTC