Staff Reporter :
Amid deployment of a large number of law enforcers following eight days of unrest in the RMG sector, workers, in a large number than yesterday, were seen joining work in Ashulia.
The number of workers was significantly higher on Wednesday.
Members of law enforcing agencies were seen at different points of Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, in the morning.
Still fear of reprisal amongst many of the workers eaist, the correspondent said.
A total of 287 RMG workers of Metro Knitting and Dyeing Mills Ltd Factory 2 were dismissed yesterday, Atiqul Islam, General Manager (corporate) of the factory, told reporters today (Wednesday). The workers were given wages for 45 days before their dismissal, Atiqul said.
They were dismissed on the condition that the cases filed against them centering the recent RMG workers’ agitation would be withdrawn, said Al Kamran, a workers’ leader of Shadhin Bangla Garments Worker Employee Federation.
However, the cases were not withdrawn till last night, the correspondent confirmed.
The worker leaders have disapproved of this dismissal and one of the leaders wishing anonymity said “it would be better to terminate the workers, because in that case they will get two months wages. But dismissal and suspension are very harmful for the workers.”
