Ctg port operations resume
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
CHITTAGONG, Jan 12 (UNB): Chittagong port operations resumed Tuesday afternoon as dock workers suspended their non-stop siege programme until January 25 after a meeting with the port authorities.
The workers went on a non-stop siege programme in the morning to realise their four-point demand.
The dockworkers joined their work at 4:00pm after a meeting with the port authorities held at port office from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
The dock leaders said they suspended their programme until January 25 following the assurance of the shipping minister, now in abroad, that he would hold meeting with them on January 23 after returning home.
The dockworkers stopped loading and unloading of goods in 13 general cargo berths from 8:00am. They also held rallies and brought out processions in and around the port in support of their siege programme.
Their demands include reinstatement of some 2,200 workers terminated during the last caretaker government, putting an end to repression on workers under berth operators, placing their jobs under the port authority and introduction of Dock Management Board.
The workers went on a non-stop siege programme in the morning to realise their four-point demand.
The dockworkers joined their work at 4:00pm after a meeting with the port authorities held at port office from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
The dock leaders said they suspended their programme until January 25 following the assurance of the shipping minister, now in abroad, that he would hold meeting with them on January 23 after returning home.
The dockworkers stopped loading and unloading of goods in 13 general cargo berths from 8:00am. They also held rallies and brought out processions in and around the port in support of their siege programme.
Their demands include reinstatement of some 2,200 workers terminated during the last caretaker government, putting an end to repression on workers under berth operators, placing their jobs under the port authority and introduction of Dock Management Board.