Workers of a readymade garment (RMG) factory demonstrated on the busy Sholashahar-Oxygen Baizid Bostami Road today after a supervisor assaulted a worker of the factory. The workers of Glory Garments of Sunman Group demonstrated inside the factory at around 1:00 pm and later took to the streets in front of Bangladesh Tea Board head office at Nasirabad causing severe traffic congestion on the road. Hundreds of transports carrying passengers and cargoes on both sides of the road were stranded for about half an hour. Industrial Police and Baizid police of CMP (Chittagong Metropolitan Police) brought the situation under control. The police said the workers protested assault on one of their colleagues by Abdul Mannan, supervisor of Glory Garments, but have withdrawn the siege after the police detained Mannan. Meanwhile, workers of Alpha Garments, another unit of the Sunman group, lay siege on the general manager of the factory at Kalurghat heavy industrial area demanding wages and Eid bonus. At this, another group of workers of the factory attacked them because the workers who surrounded the GM were basically workers of their sister concern. Three workers received minor injury in the tussle between both the groups of workers. Police from Kalurghat beat brought the situation under control as management of the factory assured them that wages and Eid bonus would be paid on July 14.
