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Bangladesh Workers at Tusuka Group factory in Gazipur stage strike for 2nd day [The Business Standard] 21-04-2025

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UK Letter to Bangladesh High Commission UK 2025-04-21 [Labour Behind the Label]

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Progress and challenges in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking sector 2025-04-15 [IndustriALL]

Bangladesh Demand Release of Bangladesh Union Leader Khorshed Alam 2025-04-15 [RAFFWU]

Bangladesh Australian Buyers Must Intervene To Pay Bangladeshi Garment Workers 2025-04-11 [RAFFWU]

Garment workers’ unions in Bangladesh to protest against US tariff increase 2025-04-09 [Apparel Resources]

Tea garden workers iterate demand for due wages, rations 2025-04-08 [The New Age]

Fighting GBVH in Bangladesh’s H&M supplier factories 2025-03-30 [IndustriALL]

Union leader released from jail but the fight continues 2025-03-27 [IndustriALL]

Tannery workers protest for minimum wage at Savar 2025-03-24 [The Daily Observer]

Automation and surveillance in Bangladesh garment factories cuts wages, pushes out women workers 2025-03-15 [Scroll]

IndustriALL calls on the interim government of Bangladesh to uphold the spirit of the Roadmap 2025-03-13 [IndustriALL]

Bangladesh Abject failure: Canada’s would-be human rights watchdog leaves Bangladeshi garment workers languishing in poverty 2025-03-13 [USW]

International Women’s Day: Calls for women’s safety countrywide 2025-03-09 [The Business Standard]

As factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure 2025-03-06 [Rest of the World]

Rana Plaza anniversary: Trade unions surge, but workers' rights still unprotected 2025-02-16 [The Daily Star]

Safety lapses persist at SN Corporation shipbreaking yard 2025-02-15 [IndustriALL]

5,000 containers face delay as transport strike at Ctg port disrupts export-import 2025-02-11 [The Business Standard]

Four assaults on journalists within a week 2025-02-11 [IFJ]

Prime mover drivers resume strike at Ctg DC Park, demand its closure 2025-02-08 [The Standard]

Tank lorry workers end strike, fuel supply resumes in Khulna 2025-02-02 [The Standard]

Trains Back On Track In Bangladesh As Rail Union Calls Off Strike In Big Relief For Yunus Govt 2025-01-30 [News18]

Female student harassment leads to clashes, transport strike in Barishal 2025-01-29 [The Observer]

Railway strike: What strikers want, what authorities say 2025-01-28 [Prothom Alo]

Tanker workers strike in Khulna: Concerns of fuel shortage in 16 districts 2025-01-28 [The Tribune]

Country comes to a halt as railway union strike stops trains in their tracks 2025-01-28 [First Post]

Trains canceled across Bangladesh as rail union goes on strike 2025-01-28 [The Leader]

Tank Lorry workers struck work in Khulna to protest union leader's arrest 2025-01-27 [UNB]

Bangladesh RAFFWU Solidarity Visit to Bangladesh 2025-01-25 [RAFFWU]

Affiliate in Bangladesh signs CBA with Hop Lun 2025-01-23 [IndustriALL]

Energy Union Wins Historic Election in Bangladesh 2025-01-17 [PSI]

Journalist booked after corruption reporting 2025-01-17 [IFJ]

Labour sector in bad shape, needs reform: experts 2025-01-13 [The New Age]

Rights orgs place reform proposals to safeguard women, labour rights 2025-01-13 [The New Age]

Sylhet transport workers call indefinite strike from tomorrow 2025-01-01 [The Business Standard]

Bangladesh Water Transport workers end strike after govt assurances on sailors’ murders 2024-12-31 [India Shipping News]

Passengers suffer as Sylhet transport workers call indefinite strike 2024-12-31 [Dhaka Tribune]

7 ship murders: Cargo vessel workers strike to demand justice, compensation 2024-12-27 [bdnews24]

Boat workers begin indefinite strike over seven murders on ship 2024-12-27 [Dhaka Tribune]

Bangladesh: nine per cent annual increment not enough 2024-12-16 [IndustriALL]

Tea workers abstain from work over unpaid wages in Moulvibazar 2024-12-07 [The Daily Observer]

Journalist harassed by immigration officials 2024-12-07 [IFJ]

Tea workers to resume work after 3 months 2024-12-03 [The Daily Observer]

India CITU demands Bangladesh government to ensure safety of minorities 2024-11-30 [CITU]

Global UNI General Secretary part of historic labour delegation to Bangladesh 2024-11-28 [UNI Global Union]

The Faces behind ‘Made in Bangladesh’ 2024-11-25 [The Daily Star]

Women workers in RMG sector decreasing: report 2024-11-24 [The Business Standard]

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This month in labour history

4-04-2012 Aminul Islam, creator of unions in the textile industry in Dhaka which produces clothing for the big brands, is kidnapped, beaten and tortured. His body, found on the side of the road, is burned and buried by the police in a mass grave. [more]

24-04-2013 1134 garment workers, most of them women, die and 2500+ are injured in the Rana Plaza factory disaster. The building collapse is believed to be the most deadly garment industry workplace mass murder in history. [more]

25-04-2013 100,000s of garment workers walked out in protest of the previous day's building collapse which killed over 1,000. They barricaded roads, fought police and attacked factories, shops and garment bosses' HQ. [more]