Ashulia’s garment factories, which produce clothing for ranges on sale across the developed world, are alive with activity but the tension brimming in the air – and the lines of armed guards posted outside some gates – echo the anger that has swept the area...The unrest over rates of pay forced around 50 factories to shut for more than a week and led to dozens of arrests and the...temporary dismissal...of at least 1,500 workers. Last week, those workers still willing to huddle in Ashulia’s streets during their lunch breaks were swapping stories about the people dismissed...No factories will give them work now...one man in his late 20s says, asking that his name be withheld...They are in big trouble. One of my friends told me he doesn’t even stay at his own house, afraid the police will harass him..Another worries that he will not be paid for the weeks in December when the factories were shuttered.