Chittagong Bureau :
The workers of two RMG units in Chittagong enforced road blockade for an hour in city demanding their salary and overtime yesterday.
The workers of Wakia and Techno Garments say that they didn’t get their salaries for May, Industrial Police Inspector Arifur Rahman told the New Nation.
Nearly a thousand of them stopped traffic on Sheikh Mujib Road at Dewanhat intersection from 10am yesterday.,Their protest caused a long traffic snarl from Agrabad Commercial area to the city’s export processing zone. Vehicles stood still because of the blockade.
They started to move at around 11am after metropolitan and industrial police persuaded the workers to lift the blockade.
“Techno Garments recently laid-off some of their workers. The workers were also protesting against that lay off and demanding their arrear salaries.
