RMG workers backtrack from strike

Amid the confusion of salary disbursement, agitating garment workers on Thursday backtracked from their indefinite countrywide strike but announced demonstrations for Friday while a countrywide strike on Saturday protesting ‘police attacks’ on them and the arrest of their leaders. Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee made the revised programme following changed scenario. Earlier, Moshrefa Mishu, president of the Garment Workers Unity Forum, had announced the indefinite countrywide indefinite strike on behalf of the workers when she was arrested by police in front of Tuba Group factory in the city’s Badda area. Before being picked up by Badda police, Mishu told reporters that the workers would continue their hunger strike at Central Shaheed Minar. However, Garment Workers Unity Forum Finance Secretary and Mishu’s spokesperson Shahidul Islam Sabuj told UNB that they have postponed the hunger-strike programme.