Garment workers demand realisation of 8-pt charter
The New Nation, Bangladesh
Leaders of the country’s leading 16 garment workers organisations yesterday demanded of the government, BGMEA and BKMEA to press home their 8-point charter of demands.
The call came from a press briefing held in the afternoon in the city. The demands include: Turning the Memorandum of Understanding, which was signed on May 24 and June 4 at Labour and Employment Ministry into a tripartite agreement, ad interim allowance of 30 per cent to the garment workers from June 2014 until the announcement of minimum wages of the Wage Board Award, formation of a tripartite monitoring committee to implement the agreement and to strengthen supervision,
making the garment factories of the country free from hooligans and extortionists, fixing a specific time to exempt the garment workers from the cases filed during the recent labour unrest and to set free those garment employees, who were arrested in the labour unrest and ensuring a physical and mental torture-free environment in the garment factories for the employees and workers.
Amirul Huq Amin, National Garments Workers Federation, Mohammad Towhidur Rahman, Bangladesh Apparel Industry Workers Federation, Sirajul Islam Roni, Meer Abul Kalam Azad Roton, among others, were present in the conference.
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