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Bangladesh: wages and garment labour unrest in Ashulia

This dossier follows garment workers’ pay demands in Ashulia and documented disruption at factories.

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Garment workers in Bangladesh in 2013.
Bangladesh, July 2013. Illustrative archive photograph; the people shown are not identified as participants in the 2026 protests. — Fahad Faisal / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ — 24 juillet 2013, redimensionnement.

Where things stand

On 31 October 2026, fresh protests and clashes lead to temporary factory closures. No wage agreement has been established.

Confirmed

Bangladesh: Ashulia factories close after wage protests

Garment workers’ protests and clashes with police disrupted factories in Ashulia, near Dhaka, on 31 October 2026. Protesters are demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka, among other measures.

Garment workers in Bangladesh in 2013.
Bangladesh, July 2013. Illustrative archive photograph; the people shown are not identified as participants in the 2026 protests. — Fahad Faisal / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ — 24 juillet 2013, redimensionnement.

Bdnews24 and Chokh report that 25 factories declared temporary closures. Workers are also demanding an end to blacklisting and arbitrary dismissals. Chokh interviewed a New Age worker about the work stoppage.

Police used tear gas. Reports differ on how many police officers were injured; no consolidated count of injured workers is available. The sources consulted do not establish any new wage agreement.

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