Following the alleged killing of the Gazipur unit president of Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers’ Federation Shahidul Islam recently, garment workers and labour leaders in Bangladesh have threatened to go on a nationwide strike if the Government failed to ensure justice for the slain labour leader.
Reports claimed this adding, the labour leaders subsequently held a protest rally titled Arrest and mete out capital punishment to the killers of worker’s leader Shahidul organised in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka, by the Industrial Bangladesh Council (IBC).
The protesting labour leaders also reportedly demanded the arrest of Prince Jacquard Sweater’s authority, in front of which the labour leader was allegedly killed as well as the other miscreants who were involved in the alleged killing of Shahidul Islam.
In the attack on Sahidul, two workers were also reportedly severely injured, and later had to be hospitalised, reports added further.
