The national alliance to protect the workers and industries, a combine of 16 such groups at a briefing at the Asad Auditorium demanded the new wage structure should be implemented from November 1.
The workers should get the increased salary and festival allowance before Eid-ul-Azha, the alliance’s coordinator Mohammad Hossain Mollah said at the briefing.
The government has delayed the wage implementation and BGMEA leaders promised to implement wages from November 1, Mollah said.
The labour leaders demanded implementation of trade unionism in apparel industries and called on the government not to form industrial police to contain labour unrest.
They demanded reopening of the Minarva Garments at Savar and Padma Poly Cotton at Tejgaon and reinstate the workers sacked earlier.
Alliance leaders Abul Hossain, Tapan Saha, Lovely Yesmin and Rafiqul Islam Sujan attended the briefing.
The National Garments Workers’ Federation formed a human chain in Muktangan, demanding implementation of new wages from November 1.
The federation’s president Amirul Haque Amin said the apparel sector would face another labour unrest if the new wages were not implemented by the time.
He also demanded revision of wage structure of Grade 6, 5, 4 and 3 where the increase of salary salaries had not been inform, he said.
The organisation’s general secretary Safia Parvin, and leader Faroque Khan and others spoke.
More than a hundred apparel workers holding red flags took part in the human chain.
-New Age, Thu, 21/10/2010
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