[1] In May 2004, the federation's workers engaged in violent clashes with supporters of the Motor Sramik Union office, which is affiliated with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in Jaldhaka.
[9] In June 2010, the Khulna City unit of the federation criticized the Awami League government for the closure of factories in the Khulna-Jessore industrial belt.
[11] In October 2010, police filed charges against activists of the federation and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, including former member of parliament Mujibur Rahman, for possessing bomb-making materials and anti-state pamphlets.
[17] In September 2015, police detained 11 Jamaat-e-Islami including Mia Golam Parwar and Prof Mujibur Rahman from a flat owned by the president of the federation Harunur Rashid.
[22] Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime, federation vice-president Mohammad Golam Rabbani expressed support for the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.