Cancel Delwar\\\'s bail: Tuba workers

Hundreds of workers of Tuba Group staged demonstration in front of Hossain Market in the city on Saturday morning demanding cancelling ‘the bail’ for its owner Delwar Hossain in a case filed over Tazreen Fashions fire two years ago. Tuba Group, which has five readymade garment factories at the 12-storey Hossain Market in Dhaka’s Uttar Badda, also owned Tazreen Fashions Ltd that caught fire in November 2012 killing about 116 workers, injuring 170 others. Meanwhile, the indefinite hunger strike programme of agitating Tuba workers entered sixth day. Earlier, they rejected the BGMEA’s pledge of payments in 7 days. Over 600 Tuba workers thronged Hossain Market premises to enforce their demonstration there around 11:00am. They chanted slogans, demanding three-month’s unpaid salary and allowances, including Eid bonus. The protesters also demanded Tuba Managing Director Delwar’s supreme punishment for what they said killing of 116 Tazreen Fashions workers and burning 170 others. Over 1,600 Tuba workers could not go home during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday being left without three months’ arrears and festival bonus. Two days before Eid, they began fast-unto-death programme on the premises of Hossain Market on July 27. They also confined Delwar’s mother-in-law and chairperson of the group Laily Begum in the Badda factory, according to a news agency.