Staff Reporter :
Leaders of the garment workers on Friday threatened to wage a tougher movement if their demand for fixing Tk 16,000 as minimum wage is not met within the next 15 days.
Garments Workers’ Trade Union Centre, an organisation representing various RMG workers unions issued the threat from a rally held in front of Jatiya Press Club Friday morning.
Workers leaders took the issue to public as negotiations opens between the
workers bodies and NGMEA – the factory owners association few days back to fix thew new wage scale at a time the cost of living has soared demanding new pay scale.
Jolly Talukdar, general secretary of the Trade Union Centre said the government and owners should accept their demand for minimum wage at Tk 16,000, including a basic of Tk 10,000, in two weeks or else, they “will go on an all-out movement.”
She also said they have rejected owners minimum wage proposed at Tk 6,300 during at a Wage Board meeting on last Monday. The very basic question is, Jolly said workers couldn’t survive with such a low wage. “The demand for increasing the wage is the demand of their life and death,” she said.
On the other hand, BGMEA leaders said they have proposed 20 percent rise in the minimum wage. The point is that a big rise is not supporting when the industry is losing competitiveness because of sharp rise in cost of production and slow down in exports.
Communist Party of Bangladesh President Mujahidul Islam Selim urged the authorities concerned to accept the workers’ demand.
Speaking on the occasion, Garments Workers’ Tread Union Centre President Advocate Mantu Gosh said they will organise demonstrations in all industrial areas in the city next week.
Leaders of the garment workers on Friday threatened to wage a tougher movement if their demand for fixing Tk 16,000 as minimum wage is not met within the next 15 days.
Garments Workers’ Trade Union Centre, an organisation representing various RMG workers unions issued the threat from a rally held in front of Jatiya Press Club Friday morning.
Workers leaders took the issue to public as negotiations opens between the
workers bodies and NGMEA – the factory owners association few days back to fix thew new wage scale at a time the cost of living has soared demanding new pay scale.
Jolly Talukdar, general secretary of the Trade Union Centre said the government and owners should accept their demand for minimum wage at Tk 16,000, including a basic of Tk 10,000, in two weeks or else, they “will go on an all-out movement.”
She also said they have rejected owners minimum wage proposed at Tk 6,300 during at a Wage Board meeting on last Monday. The very basic question is, Jolly said workers couldn’t survive with such a low wage. “The demand for increasing the wage is the demand of their life and death,” she said.
On the other hand, BGMEA leaders said they have proposed 20 percent rise in the minimum wage. The point is that a big rise is not supporting when the industry is losing competitiveness because of sharp rise in cost of production and slow down in exports.
Communist Party of Bangladesh President Mujahidul Islam Selim urged the authorities concerned to accept the workers’ demand.
Speaking on the occasion, Garments Workers’ Tread Union Centre President Advocate Mantu Gosh said they will organise demonstrations in all industrial areas in the city next week.
