Thousands of working people poured out of the garment plants in the Narayanganj district of Bangladesh November 3-4 to protest a deadly police assault on a march by garment workers. The police fired on a demonstration of thousands of mostly female garment workers that was called November 3 to protest the arrest of a unionist, Mahbubul Rahman. A 25-year-old garment worker, Kamal, was killed and some 200 protesters were injured in the brutal assault. The Narayanganj district is home to a complex of some 400 garment factories employing about 16,000 workers. Garment and textile is Bangladesh’s largest industry, employing 1.6 million.
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