Hundreds of readymade garment workers from two factories in Gazipur refrained from work and staged demonstration demanding arrears be paid.
Police said workers of Moyuri Wear Ltd and Bangla Japan had begun their demonstrations in the morning to bring attention to various demands including payment of arrears, an increase in attendance bonus and overtime payments.
Workers of Moyuri Wear Ltd said the factory authority had been making excuses and delaying in payment for the last three months.
They also said they were paid less than the salary paid to other garment factory workers. The workers started their demonstration on the factory premises yesterday around 9am after seeing main gate of the garment factory closed.
The workers said that the authority had promised them to pay the arrear yesterday had not keep their word.
As soon as they saw main gate of the factory closed, they took to the street and blocked the Abdullahpur-Baipail road for about half an hour.
Upon receiving information, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control after charging batons on the labourers.
Meanwhile, workers of Japan Bangla also stage demonstrations near the factory as the authority had not been paying salaries for the last two months.
At one stage of the agitation, the workers sat on the road which caused a huge traffic congestion on both sides of the road.
A large number of law enforcement were deployed in front of these two RMG factories to avoid any untoward incident.
Mustafizur Rahman, director of industrial police, said there was an unrest by garment workers in Gazipur, but they managed to bring the situation under control.