Solidarity Center Report: Bangladesh Union Organizers Attacked

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

A Bangladesh garment worker leader and four union organizers were badly injured in recent days when about two dozen people beat, kicked and threw them to the ground as they were speaking to workers. According to several witnesses, factory managers carried out the attack with others, some of whom worked for the factory and were potentially paid to carry out the act—not an uncommon practice in the country. Read more at the Solidarity Center.