9th Wage Board: BFUNPW, BNEF rally tomorrow

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Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Federal Union of Newspaper Press Workers (BFUNPW) and Bangladesh Newspaper Employees Federation (BNEF) will hold a joint rally in front of the National Press Club tomorrow to press home their 10-point demands including formation of the 9th Wage Board immediately.
The leaders of the organizations took the decision at an emergency meeting held on Thursday.
The other demands are: To form the Welfare
Trust for the press labourers and employees, to stop the termination of the press labourers, to restore the Newspaper Act-1974, to allot the Permanent Land for the press labourers, to give right to form Trade Union at all newspapers, to cancel the facilities of the 8th Wage Board where it is yet to implement and to pay the dues of the sacked journalists and employees.
BNEF President Motiur Rahman Talukder (Jalil) presided over the meeting while BFUNPW President Alamgir Hossain Khan moderated it.
BFUNPW Secretary General Kamal Uddin, BNEF Secretary General Md Khairul Islam, Bangladesh Newspapers Binding Dispatch Oikya Parishad President Abul Kalam Azad, Bangladesh Newspapers Computer Association President Md Moniruzzaman spoke at the meeting, among others.
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