At Sanarpar, outside Dhaka, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at strikers who set light to a lorry, police chief Abdul Matin told AFP news agency.
While Le Matin points to a low level of involvement by Algerians in party meetings as being indicative of a "socio-political rift between those in power and the citizens".
Matin then contacted his college friend Mahmoud and convinced him to leave his job on Wall Street, where he was building high frequency trading systems, to join the company as well.