More than 150 workers of a readymade garment factory have demonstrated in the street for their outstanding wages at Chittagong, reports bdnews24.com. Workers of Takwa Apparels blocked the Nazir Ahmad Road for an hour at the city’s Andarkilla at 10:00 am on Sunday. They alleged that the owner, Md Kabir, had fled after shutting down the factory a week ago without paying their two months’ salaries. The demonstrators guarded Takwa Apparel’s office on the second floor of the building while the factory on the third floor was locked on Sunday morning. The factory’s Quality Control Officer Samir Kanti Das told the news agency the local ward councillor, factory owner and police had several meetings with the workers regarding the wage issue. “The deadlines to pay the dues has been extended three times. But the owner’s people locked the factory a week ago,” Das said. He claimed that ‘hired goons of the owner had been threatening’ them as they were keeping the factory on watch for a week. Local Councillor Jawhar Lal Hajari visited the scene, pacified the protestors and make them leave the road. “We have broken the lock in front of police and made a list of the properties inside the factory,” Hajari said. “If the owner does not pay the workers, we will sell these things and pay them with the money,” he added. Chittagong Kotwali Police Inspector Nur Mohammad said they were looking for factory owner Md Kabir.
