A group of agitating garment workers of Gazipur on Friday afternoon blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway demanding their salaries and festival bonus before the Eid-ul-Azha. The streets were blocked from around 1:30pm and blocked the highway at Sreepur till 2:45pm by the workers from Paradise Spinning Mills Limited. The protests erupted on Friday morning when the authorities of the factory, based on Thursday’s decision, announced to keep it open during the Eid holidays without paying them salary for the month of September and Eid festival bonus. Abul Bashar, general manager of the factory, said that the salary for September will be paid at the end of the month. The protests created a gridlock of nearly two kilometres on the highway.
