The protests escalated, with workers burning tyres, destroying vehicles and vandalising factories, which led to the police using rubber bullets and tear gas.
[2] Together with other protestors, GWUF president Mushrefa Mishu was detained on December 14 after being accused of having "ransacked" a garment company's office.
[5] In 2016, GWUF submitted an OECD complaint against TÜV Rheinland together with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and other partners.
The complaint detailed alleged failures of a report submitted by TÜV Rheinland on the Rana Plaza factory building in Dhaka some months before its collapse in 2013.
[6] In response, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs acknowledged that a reform of factory audits in Bangladesh's garment industry was needed.