Garment workers protest for pensions in Bangalore

Mumbai - Since Monday, about 15,000 garment workers - many of them women - from five garment units have been protesting on the outskirts of Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), the capital of India's southern state of Karnataka. The workers staged the massive, at times violent demonstration to protest against changes in the Provident Fund Act, the country's pension scheme that currently has about 50 million subscribers, among them many garment workers.