Red alert in Savar EPZ
Decision to amend the Wage Board for garment workers
6/5/2014/Financial Express
A tripartite meeting of the government, garment workers and the garment manufacturers decided Sunday to amend the Wage Board formed earlier for the garment workers, reports UNB.
As per a decision of the meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat with State Minister for Labour and Employment Amanullah Aman, the government will withdraw Nazma Akhtar from the Wage Board.
Earlier, Nazma Akhtar, a representative of a faction of the garment workers, was appointed as a member of the Wage Board.
But other agitating groups raised objection to her appointment and demanded her withdrawal from the Wage Board alleging that she was not appointed in consultation with them.
A new member replacing Nazma Akhtar will be appointed as representative of the garment workers in the Wage Board.
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Commerce Minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdullah Al Noman, BGMEA President Tipu Munshi, BKMEA President Fazlul Haque, and SKOP leaders Wazedul Islam, Mohammad Shahidullah and Shirin Akhtar attended the meeting.
The meeting also decided that from today (Monday) all the garment factories outside the EPZs would remain open and urged the garment workers to join their duties.
It endorsed the proceedings of the tripartite meeting held on June 1 and decided to immediately implement its decisions.
Another report from Savar adds: A red alert was sounded Sunday in the EPZ following Saturday’s renewed labour unrest that forced the authorities to close the factories sine die.
But outside the EPZ, a section of workers of two or three factories, including Trust Sweater Factory and Hamim Group at Jamgara, flared up unrest. The angry workers assaulted some 10 people identified as agents of the owners.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police quickly came to the spot and threatened the workers of dire action against acts of vandalism. The owners closed the factories and asked the workers to leave.
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