Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- Jatiya Shramik Shakti on Monday demanded a minimum monthly wage of Tk 30,000 for garment workers and warned the government against using force to suppress the ongoing workers' movement.

"If attempts are made to suppress the movement, the situation could take a turn in which Tarique Rahman will find no way to flee," the organisation's Member Secretary Riyaz Morshed said at a press conference at Gazipur Chowrasta.

He alleged that Tarique Rahman had returned to Bangladesh from London riding on the student-worker-public movement, yet workers were now facing force for taking part in peaceful protests.

Jatiya Sramik Shakti is the Labor wing of the National Citizen Party (NCP).

Morshed also expressed dissatisfaction with the...