The Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad, a combine of 16 labour rights bodies, is going to launch movements to press home its nine-point charter of demands that include implementation of trade union rights, announcement of national minimum wage, introduction of democratic labour law and full rationing of food and essential items for industrial workers.
The SKOP will hold a national convention in the last week of this month in Dhaka to finalise the details of the movement and stage countrywide mass contact programmes in the industrial belts, said inside sources.
The central leaders of the SKOP took part in the divisional representative's rallies in June in the industrial belts in Khulna, Jessore, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Barisal, Sylhet, Faridpur, Kushtia, Bogra, Pabna, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Comilla, Mymensingh, Savar, Ashulia, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Gorai and Tarabo.
Labour leaders Shahidullah Chowdhury, Abul Kasem Chowdhury, Roy Ramesh Chandra, Zafrul Hasan, Shah Mohammad Abu Zafar, Abdul Kader Hawladar, Safiuddin Ahmed, Wajedul Islam Khan, Lutfar Rahman, Khalilur Rahman, Zahedul Haque Milu, Razequzzaman Ratan and others addressed at the rallies.
Moreover, the SKOP will stage workers' rallies in 16 industrial belts in the country before the convention, said sources.
Shahidullah Chowdhury, SKOP's leader and president of the Trade Union Centre, told New Age that the Awami League-led alliance government had claimed to be worker-friendly and had made a lot of pledges for their welfare, but not one was fulfilled in its nearly three-year rule.
Wajedul Islam Khan, SKOP's coordinator and general secretary of the TUC, said that more than two hundred workers' representatives from across the country will take part in the convention.
'We shall launch agitation movements to compel the government to fulfil our nine-point demands,' Wajedul added.
'The workers of the garment sector, the biggest sector of the country, are still deprived of their trade union rights though government pledged several times that they would be given the right,' said Wajedul.
Razequzzaman Ratan, the general secretary of Samaj-tantrik Sramik Front, said that the most of the workers have been deprived as still they did not get any salary hikes.
The Awami League did not implement their election pledges to the workers, Razequzzaman added.
Source : New Age
No comments:
Post a Comment