Editorial
Rampaging garment workers
They need counselling and guidance
At times the workers seem to take out their anger on imaginary enemies, and the latest incident at Gazipur only proves the point. There can be no other explanation for some garment workers to have gone berserk on Dhaka-Mymensingh road on Sunday on hearing the rumour about deaths of some fellow workers in a road accident. It is a fact that there was an accident on the road in which three garment workers received injuries, who were later taken to a hospital in Tongi, but there was no confirmation of their deaths from any source. And yet, on the basis of unconfirmed news, the group of unruly workers went out on the road, blockaded the busy highway, damaged and torched a number of vehicles and clashed with the policemen. We are appalled to learn that the frenzied workers even damaged fire brigade engines for no reason whatsoever.We remain puzzled as to why a section of garment factory workers keep looking for excuses to take law in their hands. They do so mostly in the name of avenging themselves on some grievances but in the process they resort to wholesale lawlessness and violence. This is a dangerous trend and this has to be stopped at any cost. Such acts of violence have a demonstration effect inducing others to imitate. We feel it is time the factory owners gave a serious thought to using the services of psychological counsellors to get to the bottom of the minds of the workers. Such services are regular features in the factories in developed countries and we are sure, once introduced, these would bring desired results. Notwithstanding their grievances, the workers cannot go on creating a situation of anarchy in the industrial belts and on the roads, thereby affecting the lives and property of others. They need to be told that by doing so they only help remove the focus from the main issue of punishing the real perpetrators of accident.
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