"International month of solidarity with the workers at Dragon Sweater Factory (Dhaka, Bangladesh)", 15 August 2020

Approximately 6,000 workers used to earn a living in the Dragon Sweater factory located in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. In March 2020, the factory closed down using the CoViD-19 pandemic as a pretext. The owners decided to terminate the workers without severance pay, owed wages, owed provident fund amounts and owed bonus pay. The action to fire workers without the pay and benefits owed to them is illegal.

The factory owners are part of a large conglomerate called Dragon Group, which also has an office in London. Until now they reject to cooperate with the workers. Most of them are organized with the Garment Workers’ Trade Union Center (GWTUC) and they have been taking their struggle to the streets since the factory closure was announced... So far, we can confirm that the workers were sewing, ironing and packing for New Yorker, Walmart and Lidl in huge numbers in 2019...