Workers of a readymade garment (RMG) factory demonstrated on the busy Sholashahar-Oxygen Baizid Bostami Road on Saturday demanding payment of their wages. About 500 workers of Scissor Apparel (Extension) came out of the factory at around 2:30 pm on Saturday and later took to the street in front of Bangladesh Tea Board head office at Nasirabad causing a severe traffic congestion on the road. Hundreds of transports carrying passengers and cargoes had remained stranded on both sides of the road for about one and a half hours until the Industrial Police and Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) from the Baizid Bostami police station intercepted and convinced them to withdraw the siege. Babul Banik, Officer-in-Charge of Baizid Bostami police station, said they talked with the management of the factory and the management said the wages would be paid Sunday. Workers said that the government instructed the garment factories to pay off wages of the workers by July 10, but the management of the RMG factory did not pay heed to that. Industrial police said that the garment factories generally pay the wages of workers during 13th to 15th of every month. The management also said that they would make the payment accordingly. Inspector (intelligence) of the Industrial Police in Chittagong Arifur Rahman said the workers demonstrated following an altercation with the production manager of the factory over payment.
