Savar (Dhaka) Correspondent

All the factories were opened on Sunday morning in the previously restive Ashulia, Savar and Gazipur industrial zones, but about two hours into launching production activities at least 15 garment factories in Ashulia were forced to shut down.

Workers in these factories started observing work abstention, prompting authorities to stop all activities over concerns of further tensions. However, industrial police superintendent Sarwar Alam confirmed no untoward incident took place amid a beefed up presence of law enforcers.

The workers demanded the RMG factory owners made no reference to their demands, so they had to pause production activities.

Worker demands in the remaining 30 factories, which had to shut operations on Saturday, were largely addressed through verbal commitments, and thus operations continued uninterrupted in these facilities.

Khaiul Mamun Mintu, legal affairs secretary at Bangladesh Garments and Sweaters Worker Trade Union, said the owners of the 15 closed factories only need to sit down with their workers over their demands for resuming production activities.