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Download PDF Sramik Karmachari Oikyo Parishad (Skop) will enforce 24-hour countrywide strike today demanding implementation of different agreements in various industries in the country including readymade garment (RMG), sugar, jute, railways and water transport sectors.
Skop has made preparations to blockade the highways, railways and waterways for four hours today from 8:00am to 12:00 noon.
Meanwhile, Garments Sramik O Shilpa Rokkhya Jatiya Mancha at a press conference yesterday expressed their solidarity with today’s strike and withdrew the 24-hour strike called for tomorrow.
Skop’s demands also include stop denationalisation, eradication of injustice in different pay commissions and revision of the labour law as per the ILO convention.
In a press conference yesterday at its office in the capital, Skop leaders reiterated their commitment to continue their programmes for the realisation of the rights of workers and employees.
Skop leaders urged the government to review recently proposed minimum wage for the RMG workers.
Sramik League secretary Roy Romesh Chandra said according to the proposed pay scale, a garment worker would get only Tk 37 a day with which one cannot afford to buy one kg of rice and a kg of potato from the market.
“Garment workers and leaders are not involved in any destructive and counter productive activities”, he said ruling out the allegation of ransacking garment factories that surfaced once again after the October 10 strike.
Persons involved in destructive activities must either be agents of the government or of the garment owners, he added.
The RMG industry has reached a viable state with backbreaking labour by the workers and these workers cannot do anything that would ruin the industry, Romesh explained.
In response to an appeal from a number of concerned citizens to keep the garment sector out of the purview of the strike, he said the strike is meant for the realisation of demands of workers and employees of all sectors of the country and it would be illogical to keep garment sector out of the strike’s purview.
Skop leaders also demanded the government stop harassing the innocent garment workers for their alleged involvement in destructive activities.
Roy Romesh Chandra read out a written statement at the programme while President of Sramik Jote Abdul Kader Howlader, President of Sramik League Abdul Matin Master, General Secretary of Jatiya Sramik Federation Shafiuddin Ahmed were also present.
Explaining the rationale behind the withdrawal of tomorrow’s strike called by the Mancha, Textile Garment Workers’ Federation Abul Hossain said the decision came after considering garment owners and workers’ interest on the eve of the Eid-ul-Fitre vacation.
Meanwhile, Awami League led 14-party opposition combine also expressed their solidarity with the strike today along with different garment workers’ organisations.
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