{"id":8732,"date":"2013-05-17T09:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2013-05-17T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T04:37:21","slug":"bangladesh-garment-hub-to-reopen-after-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=8732","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh garment hub to reopen after unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bangladeshi-garment-workers-protest-the-collapse-of-the-eight-storey-rana-plaza-compound-in-savar-on-april-27-2013-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8733\" alt=\"bangladeshi-garment-workers-protest-the-collapse-of-the-eight-storey-rana-plaza-compound-in-savar-on-april-27-2013-4\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bangladeshi-garment-workers-protest-the-collapse-of-the-eight-storey-rana-plaza-compound-in-savar-on-april-27-2013-4.jpg\" width=\"538\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bangladeshi-garment-workers-protest-the-collapse-of-the-eight-storey-rana-plaza-compound-in-savar-on-april-27-2013-4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bangladeshi-garment-workers-protest-the-collapse-of-the-eight-storey-rana-plaza-compound-in-savar-on-april-27-2013-4-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bangladeshi-garment-workers-protest-the-collapse-of-the-eight-storey-rana-plaza-compound-in-savar-on-april-27-2013-4-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a>Bangladesh garment manufacturers said Thursday they would reopen hundreds of factories in a manufacturing hub outside the capital, days after they shut the plants due to worker unrest following a deadly accident.<br \/>\nThe manufacturers Monday announced the shutdown of the factories in the Ashulia industrial area after two weeks of protests over the death of 1,127 garment workers in the country&#8217;s worst industrial tragedy.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve decided to reopen the factories from Friday,&#8221; Shahidullah Azim, vice-president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, said after meeting government and labour representatives.<br \/>\nThe association, which represents the country&#8217;s 4,500 garment factories, took the decision after the government assured it of the &#8220;highest security&#8221; for the plants, Azim told AFP.<br \/>\n&#8220;We met the home and labour ministers and representatives from the workers today. They assured the highest security for our factories,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nMost of Bangladesh&#8217;s top garment factories, which make clothing for a string of major Western retailers including Walmart, H&amp;M, Tesco, Inditex and Carrefour, are based at Ashulia.<br \/>\nPolice said tens of thousands of workers joined the protests and dozens of factories and vehicles were vandalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh garment manufacturers said Thursday they would reopen hundreds of factories in a manufacturing hub&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}