Petrol pump-tank lorry strike from today

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Petrol pump and tank lorry owners and workers will go for an indefinite strike from today (Sunday) to press home their 13-point demand, reports UNB.
The demands include raising commission on the sale of petrol from the present 2 per cent to 7 per cent, enforcing the decision for setting up testing laboratory at the petrol depots, issuing arms licences to the petrol pump owners and raising tank lorry fare.
Petrol Pump and Tank Lorry Owners-Workers Unity Council, a newly floated organisation comprising Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners
Association and Tank Lorry Workers Federation, earlier announced the work abstention programme from a press conference in Dhaka on April 12.
"We'll start our strike programme from Sunday as per earlier announcement as nobody from the government side has yet contacted us to consider our demands," Mohammad Nazmul Haque, convenor of the Unity Council and also President of Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners Association, told the news agency Saturday.
Earlier, they enforced a half-day strike on March 14 at the petrol pumps and depots across the country to press for their demands. At that time, they gave an ultimatum to the government for implementing their demands by April 11, but there was no initiative to address their demands.