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GAZIPUR: Readymade garment (RMG) workers in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur staged another protest on Thursday, demanding that the minimum monthly wage be raised to Tk 30,000.
At around 9am, workers from several factories gathered on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in the Mouchak area without joining work, bringing traffic on the busy highway to a halt.
According to police and workers, employees of several factories in the Mouchak area went to their workplaces in the morning but refused to join work and began protesting for higher wages.
Later, after the factories declared a holiday, the workers took to the highway and blocked traffic. All factories in Mouchak and surrounding areas have since declared holidays.
Kaliakair Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shahidul Islam said police rushed to the scene after receiving information about the protest.
Traffic remained suspended as the workers occupied the highway, he said, adding that police were trying to bring the situation under control by persuading the protesters to leave the road.
