A cross part of individuals together with leaders of garment employees, researchers, lecturers and cultural activists on Sunday demanded that the newly fashioned interim authorities ought to work for guaranteeing primary rights of garment employees.
They stated that the federal government, throughout its time, ought to set a brand new normal for enhancing the standard of life for all employees, particularly employees of the garment sector, which is the main supply of the nation’s export earnings.
At a dialogue titled Clothes Employees’ Expectations from the Interim Authorities, organised by Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati on the Nationwide Press Membership within the capital, audio system additionally demanded particular initiatives to guard employees, industries and factories.
Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati president Taslima Akhter chaired the dialogue and browse a written assertion inserting an 11-point demand.
The calls for included guaranteeing justice for killing garment employees and all different killings, withdrawal of all false and repressive circumstances towards garment employee’s leaders and employees of the motion for elevated wages in 2023 and reforming the minimal wage board with representatives of employees and reconsideration of the demand for a minimal wage of Tk 25,000.
Taslima additionally demanded taking initiative to offer rations to employees, assurance of employees’ rights to organise, kind unions, maintain rallies, conferences and specific opinions freely and accountability for the economic police, establishing correct day-care centres for kids of the employees with the extension of maternity go away from 4 to 6 months and establishing correct anti-sexual harassment cells in factories.
Moreover, the calls for additionally included assurance of a secure working atmosphere in factories, assurance of housing, healthcare, schooling for the kids of garment employees and a justified retirement pension for them, assurance of dignified compensation for employees, authorities’s position to make sure accountability for each manufacturing unit homeowners and consumers and bringing an finish to harassment of employees by ‘blacklisting’ and arbitrarily termination.
Echoing the calls for, Garment Sramik Oikya Discussion board basic secretary Shahidul Islam Sabuj stated that efficient steps should be taken to make sure all the essential rights of garment employees by the interim authorities, which has been fashioned after a student-led mass upsurge forcing Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.
Garment employee Aklima stated that current wages for garment employees was not practical and their voices would by no means be heard if their proper to organise couldn’t be ensured.
Bangladesh College of Engineering and Know-how professor Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, growth researcher Shima Das Shimu, Garment Sramik Commerce Union Kendra central chief Sadekur Rahman Shamim, author Navine Murshid and cultural activist Reetu Sattar, amongst others, had been current on the session.
