Staff Reporter :
Leaders and activists of Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad on Saturday called on the government to stop denationalisation of the state-owned sugar mills and reopen the jute mills closed by the government.
The call came from a protest rally of the platform, a combination of 12 labour rights bodies, held beside the central office of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal to press its nine-point demands.
Bangladesh Trade Union Centre president Shahidullah Chowdhury, who chaired the rally, said that Awami League government already closed 25 state-owned jute mills and going to close the state-owned sugar mills.
The government already has halted productions of six sugar mills across the country, Shahidullah said.
SKOP would wage tougher movements if the government did not refrain from denationalisation of the sugar mills and take steps to reopen the closed jute mills, he said.
Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal president Anwar Hossain, Trade Union Sangha general secretary Chowdhury Ashikul Alam, Jatiya Sramik Jote Bangladesh president Saifuzzaman Badsha and others spoke at the rally.
The rally was followed by a protest procession that paraded different Dhaka roads.
Leaders and activists of Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad on Saturday called on the government to stop denationalisation of the state-owned sugar mills and reopen the jute mills closed by the government.
The call came from a protest rally of the platform, a combination of 12 labour rights bodies, held beside the central office of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal to press its nine-point demands.
Bangladesh Trade Union Centre president Shahidullah Chowdhury, who chaired the rally, said that Awami League government already closed 25 state-owned jute mills and going to close the state-owned sugar mills.
The government already has halted productions of six sugar mills across the country, Shahidullah said.
SKOP would wage tougher movements if the government did not refrain from denationalisation of the sugar mills and take steps to reopen the closed jute mills, he said.
Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal president Anwar Hossain, Trade Union Sangha general secretary Chowdhury Ashikul Alam, Jatiya Sramik Jote Bangladesh president Saifuzzaman Badsha and others spoke at the rally.
The rally was followed by a protest procession that paraded different Dhaka roads.
