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City Desk :
Tannery Workers Union & Solidarity Center
Leaders of Tannery Workers Union , an association of tannery workers, urged the authorities concerned to fulfill their 14-point demand, including ensuring job security and social justice and formulation of minimum wage board for them.

President of the union Abul Kalam Azad raised the demands at a coordination meeting organized on the nineteenth instant by the Union and Solidarity Center at a city hotel .

The tannery industry’s stakeholders took part in it.

“The other demands also include: actual implementation of applicable national laws and regulations maintaining international standards, establishment of legal and social justice through the practice of industrial democracy, skills-based human resource management, ensuring a neat, hygienic and safe work environment, implementation of labor welfare facilities and strengthening of non-discrimination mechanism at workplace,” he told the meeting, reports BSS.

Labour experts, representatives of Ministry of Labour, Directorate of Factory and Establishment Inspection, Bangladesh Tanners Association, Labor Court Bar Association, representatives of Bangladesh Labour Rights Journalists Forum (BLRJF), Asia Foundation, GIZ Bangladesh, Solider Swiss Bangladesh, Oshi Foundation and Bangladesh Institute of Labor Studies were present there. General Secretary of the union Abdul Malek said, “To achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.