{"id":17592,"date":"2013-04-28T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2013-04-28T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:06:10","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-of-bangladeshs-garment-workers-walk-out-in-protest-over-factory-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/04\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-bangladeshs-garment-workers-walk-out-in-protest-over-factory-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh\u2019s garment workers walk out in protest over factory deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bangladesh-factory-protest-via-AFP-e1366885073127\"<\/a>By Agence France-Presse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of garment workers walked out of their factories in Bangladesh Thursday, police said, to protest the deaths of 200 people in a building collapse, in the latest tragedy to hit the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief turned to anger as the workers, some carrying sticks, blockaded key highways in at least three industrial areas just outside the capital Dhaka, forcing factory owners to declare a day\u2019s holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were hundreds of thousands of them,\u201d said Abdul Baten, police chief of Gazipur district, where hundreds of large garment factories are based. \u201cThey occupied roads for a while and then dispersed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Police inspector Kamrul Islam said the workers had attacked several factories whose bosses had refused to give employees the day off.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were protesting the deaths of the workers in Savar,\u201d he said, referring to the town outside Dhaka where Wednesday\u2019s collapse of an eight-storey building housing five garment factories took place, injuring more than 1,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany wanted to donate blood to their fellow workers,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some 1,500 workers marched to the Dhaka headquarters of the main manufacturers association, demanding the owners of the collapsed factories be punished.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe owners must be hanged,\u201d one protester cried, as others tried to lay seige to the headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some workers smashed windows and vehicles before they were chased away by police, Wahidul Islam, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka police, told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rescuers in Savar pulled dozens of bodies from the collapsed building on Thursday as the death toll in the country\u2019s worst industrial disaster reached 200, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Managers had allegedly ignored workers\u2019 warnings that the building had become unstable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Survivors say the building developed cracks on Tuesday evening, triggering an evacuation of the roughly 3,000 garment workers employed there, but that they had been ordered back to production lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

The accident has again highlighted safety problems and poor working conditions that plague the textile industry in Bangladesh, the world\u2019s second-biggest clothing exporter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last November a blaze at a factory making clothing for Walmart and other Western labels in Dhaka left 111 people dead, with survivors describing how fire exits were kept locked by site managers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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