Garment workers began to gather at the Uttarkhan and Dakhinkhan areas after 9am on Tuesday and headed toward the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway, said Airport Zone Assistant Police Commissioner Md Mizanur Rahman.
“They are trying to get the other garment workers to take to the streets. If they refused they would vandalise the factories. We have received reports of attacks on the Nipa and APS Garments factories in Dakhinkhan.”
Police are on the alert and are attempting to keep peace, said Mizanur Rahman.
Garment workers in Mirpur’s Kalshi area have occupied the road and are engaging in confrontations with police.
Police Kafrul Zone Assistant Commissioner Syed Mamun Mostafa said the demonstration in front of a 22-storey garment factory had blocked off one side of the road in Kalshi.
Garments workers are also protesting on the streets in Rokeya Sharani and the Pallabi area, causing traffic congestion.
They claim that garment owners are not paying them according to the new wage structure and that they have instead become the victims of various forms of injustice.
The protest caused a five-hour traffic stoppage from Airport Road to Uttara’s Azampur on Sunday. The garment workers also protested on the thoroughfare for another five hours on Monday. They also set fire to an Ena Paribahan bus near the airport.