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Looking back on a corporate crime in Bangladesh that cost over 1,000 lives
The Rana Plaza textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed on 24 April 2013, burying some 5,000 people underneath. The day before, cracks had been discovered in the walls of the factory building and the collapse of (...)
Bangladesh on 24 January passed a law that seeks the universalisation of pension schemes towards the social security coverage of Bangladeshi citizens.
Called the Universal Pension Management Bill, the measure is a response to the low number of people in Bangladesh who enjoy social protection. (...)
At least 49 people, including nine firefighters, were killed and over 200 injured in a fire and massive explosion at a privately-run inland container depot at Sitakunda on the outskirts of the country’s port city Chattogram on Saturday night.
The rescue officials said that the victims in the (...)
On 26 November 2021, a meeting of the Central Committee of the Bangladesh Workers’ Federation was held under the chairmanship of Syed Kudrat-e-Khoda Totan, Executive President of the Central Committee of the organization and conducted by the General Secretary AAM Fayez Hossain. At the beginning (...)
On 25 September 2021 a public meeting of sugarcane workers was held in Gaibandha, a far northern district of Bangladesh. The meeting was organized by the coalition of several workers’ organizations including Bangladesh Shramik Federation. AAM Fayez Hossain, General Secretary of the Federation (...)
Today, September 25, 2021, at the initiative of Sramik Karmachari Sangram Parishad, Bangladesh Akhchasi Union and Krishak organizations, Gaibandha Public Library Hall at 11 am a representative meeting to protest against the closure or denationalization of sugar mills and demand the opening laid (...)
A factory fire in Bangladesh has killed 52 people and injured 30 others, emergency services have said.
The blaze broke out on Thursday night at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town near the capital Dhaka.
Authorities told AP news agency the fire took hold because (...)
Many migrants seeking better employment opportunities abroad fall victim to human trafficking. Photo: IOM/Francesco MalavoltaTasneem Tayeb
We all aspire to “a better future”. While the idea of a better future and what it entails varies from people to people, dreamer to dreamer, what remains (...)
A joint press conference was held demanding arrest, trial and punishment of slain garment workers Rafiqul Islam and in the protest of police harassment of innocent workers at the imitative of Motherland Garment Workers Federation, Readymade Garment Workers Federation, Bangladesh Garment and (...)
The outcome of the continuous movement of the garment workers for the last couple of days is as follows :
Dated 29/10/2020
MoU
On 29 October 2020 a Memorandum of Understanding Meeting was held at the Department of Factory and Establishment Inspection, Dhaka district office in order to (...)
Rallies and Humanchain were held under the joint initiative of Garment Shramik and Shilpa Rakka Jatiya Manch and Bangladesh Labor Rights Forum demanding immediate arrest and punishment of the rapists of Ritu, a garment worker of Dream Knitwear Ltd. in Haji Bari Matin Gate area of Kashimpur (...)
At the call of 20 organizations, a Rally and Human Chain held in front of National Press Club, Dhaka, demanding a trial for the killing of Rafiqul Islam, a garment worker.
On 26 September 2020, on Saturday, at 11 am in front of National Press Club, Dhaka, the rally and human chain was held, (...)
World Day for Decent Work 2019 Theme: invest in the care economy. With this theme keeping in mind Bangladesh Sangjukto Shramik Federation and Bangladesh Sanjukto Building and Wood Workers’ Federation organized a human chain today on 7 October 2019 at 10:30 am to 12 noon in front of National (...)
Six years after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse killed over a thousand people, Bangladeshi workers are striking for better wages and safer conditions.
On April 23, 2013, a local television crew shot footage of cracks in the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building (...)
Above titled seminar was held CICC Auditorium, CIRDAP, Dhaka at 10 am on 25 June 2019.
Labor rights Forum convenor Labor leader Abul Hossain presided over the seminar while Member Secretary of the same and Nagorik Udyog Executive Chief Zakir Hossain moderated.
The seminar was addressed, (...)
Exclusive: government’s own data shows no factory it inspects has eliminated high-risk safety hazards
Bangladesh’s government could assume responsibility for safety in workplaces producing clothing for major western brands this week despite demonstrating a “shocking level of unreadiness” to do (...)
• The wage protests in December of 2018 were largely peaceful;
• The response by government security forces was characterized by indiscriminate use of physical force...
• Arrests of, and criminal charges against, 65 workers were driven by demonstrably baseless complaints from managers of 30 (...)
Today on 25 February 2019 Building Construction Labor Union(ENSUB) celebrated its 25th founding anniversary at auditorium of Photo Journalist Association in Dhaka.
The celebration was presided over by Eng. Osman Ghani, President of ENSUB. Bangladesh Krishok Federation President and CPBML (...)
At least 7,580 workers from 27 factories had been laid off in recent weeks.
DHAKA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - At least three garment manufacturers in Bangladesh that supply European brands such as H&M and Next have laid off thousands of workers weeks after they had joined wage protests, union (...)
Thousands of workers in Bangladesh have taken the streets in protest since the recent implementation of the wage revision in the garment sector. When police in Dhaka started firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd, one worker was killed and many others were injured.
“Clean Clothes (...)
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