DHAKA: Besides payment of dues, deprived workers declared protest procession form Saturday demanding supreme punishment of Tuba Group owner Delwar Hossain.

Hundreds of Tuba workers will bring out the protest procession from in front of Badda Hossain Market in the city around 11:00am.

Tuba Group Workers Movement Alliance leader Moshrefa Mishu made the announcement on Friday noon.

She said that Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters' Association (BGMEA) is lying about workers salary and bonus.

“The organization said that dues couldn’t be paid as the owner was in jail -- but where is money of shipments that we made in last months?” she threw a question.

She also alleged that these all are way to release Delwar using workers’ issue.

Tuba factory workers, on hunger strike for last five days, in spite of BGMEA’s commit to pay a part of their dues within a week.

The workers of Tuba’s five factories say the management owes them three months’ wages as well as bonuses.

They are now in movement demanding the three months’ salary of 1600 workers and restarting of all the garments along with Tazreen Fashions which was gutted in fie in 2012 and killed 112 trapped workers.

BDST: 1323 HRS, AUG 01, 2014