Lives of tens of thousands of workers on the line as garment titan NASSA shuts 16 plants

NASSA Group, once one of Bangladesh’s largest garment exporters, has permanently shut down 16 of its factories, throwing the future of roughly 30,000 workers into uncertainty and deepening wage arrears across its plants. The closures follow the arrest of the group’s Chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder on corruption and embezzlement charges earlier this month. Workers are owed months of unpaid wages and are struggling to find new employment, as many factories refuse to hire them due to their involvement in protests. “I still have two months’ salary pending with NASSA. I don’t know when or if we will get it,” said Nasir Uddin, a helper at Nassa Super Garments in Ashulia, who supported his parents and siblings with his wages. “We...