Bangladeshi Workers Receive Overdue Pay After Police Break Hunger Strike

Garment workers in five Bangladeshi factories that supplied clothes for Walmart and other western retailers finally received their wages on Sunday Aug. 10, following an 11-day hunger strike. The settlement came after the managing director of the Tuba Group, Delwar Hossain, was bailed on Aug. 5. Hossain has been in prison since Feb. on charges of homicide and negligence leading to the death of 112 workers in a factory fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Dhaka in Nov. 2012.

Workers stopped production on June 10 after the management failed to pay their wages in May ...