Garment Workers Block Dhaka-Tangail Highway Again

Garment workers from several factories have once again blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Mouchak area of Gazipur, staging protests demanding an increase in the minimum wage.

The blockade, which began on Thursday (November 12) morning, has halted traffic on a section of the highway from Safipur. This has caused long traffic tailbacks on both sides of the road, leaving passengers and transport operators stranded.

At around 8:45am, workers from several garment factories stopped working, left their factories and gathered on the highway in the Mouchak area. At one point, they blocked the road and began demonstrating, bringing traffic on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway to a halt.

Police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and industrial police personnel are working at the scene to bring the situation under control and restore normal traffic. They are trying to persuade the workers to leave the highway.

Gazipur Industrial Zone-2 Superintendent of Police Md Amzad Hossain said the agitated workers had left their workplaces and blocked the road. Law enforcement personnel are working to remove them from the highway and restore traffic.