As many as 16 garment workers and four others, including police personnel, were injured in a clash between the police and the garment workers during a workers’ demonstration demanding due salary in the port city of Chittagong recently.
Media reports maintained this adding the workers of Regent Textile Limited on 4 April blocked a road in front of the manufacturing unit around 8:00 am demanding their due salaries, owing to which vehicular movement was, reportedly, suspended for three hours.
Citing eyewitnesses, reports further added the workers blocked the Chittagong-Boalkhali road even as police intervened to remove the protesting workers from the road, consequent to which a clash ensued, in which at least 20 people, including police personnel, were injured.
Meanwhile, as per a worker of the concerned factory, hundreds of workers of Regent Textiles Mills Ltd., which closed on 16 March, gathered in front of the manufacturing unit on 4 April to collect their arrears but as the factory authorities did not allow them to enter the factory, they resorted to blocking the road in front of the unit, following which police, reportedly, carried out baton charge to free the road of the agitators.
