RMG workers want salaries, bonus by 20th June
Staff Reporter :
The leaders of different labour organisations on Friday demanded payment of their salaries and Eid bonus by June 26 (20th Ramzan).
They said this at a human-chain organised in front of the National Press Club in the morning.
About three hundred workers and their leaders from Bangladesh Garments Industry Workers Federation, National Garments Workers Alliance and other labour leaders took part in the human chain.
They said, the workers will not accept it if the owners dillydally in paying the salaries and bonus within the given date.
They also claimed, the workers face intolerable pressure to meet the buyers’ additional orders during Ramzan and ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
The Eid will be held in the first week of July.
The government has already urged the owners of RMG units across Bangladesh to pay the workers their Eid bonus by the third week of the Ramzan.
The leaders of different labour organisations on Friday demanded payment of their salaries and Eid bonus by June 26 (20th Ramzan).
They said this at a human-chain organised in front of the National Press Club in the morning.
About three hundred workers and their leaders from Bangladesh Garments Industry Workers Federation, National Garments Workers Alliance and other labour leaders took part in the human chain.
They said, the workers will not accept it if the owners dillydally in paying the salaries and bonus within the given date.
They also claimed, the workers face intolerable pressure to meet the buyers’ additional orders during Ramzan and ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
The Eid will be held in the first week of July.
The government has already urged the owners of RMG units across Bangladesh to pay the workers their Eid bonus by the third week of the Ramzan.
