The authorities suspended production in 12 readymade garment (RMG) factories in Ashulia industrial belt for today (Thursday) as labour unrest flared up over wage hike. Sources said about 50,000 workers of 12 garment factories in Berun, Narasinghapur and Nischintapur areas staged demonstration sporadically in front of their factories
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10 of 18 closed RMG factories resume operation
Ten of the 16 garment factories that had been closed on safety grounds after the April 24 Rana Plaza collapse at Savar resumed their operations on Thursday. The textile and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique told New Age that the cabinet committee on readymade garment industry had shut 16 apparel factories in Dhaka