DHAKA: The workers of Tuba Group threatened for stern movement if the authorities failed to open the factories and pay bonus by August 20.

The leaders of Garment Sramik Oikya Forum issued the threat while addressing a rally held in front of the National Museum at Shahbagh in the capital on Sunday afternoon.

Addressing the rally, President of the forum Mosrefa Mishu forewarned that if the authorities keep the factories closed, they have to pay salaries as per the factory rules.

She added: “Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) have to take imitative to employ the workers and we will wait till August 20.”

At the rally, the workers claimed that some 95 percent people of the country supported the demonstration and the rest five percent did not support them as “they are mass enemy”.

The demonstration proved that the BGMEA is not an organization of patriotic industrialists but it is an organization of such owner like murderer Delwar, they also claimed.

The workers forum also declared seven-point demand, including salary even the factories remain closed.

BDST: 1820 HRS, AUG 17, 2014