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Meet demands by Thursday or face action: Tuba workers

Wednesday, 6 August 2014


Tuba Group workers have threatened to strike down all readymade garment factories across Bangladesh Saturday if their five-point charter of demand is not met by Thursday.
Tuba Group Sramik Sangram (workers' action) Committee Convenor Moshrefa Mishu declared their plans Wednesday afternoon.
They will also demonstrate across the country Thursday and Friday, according to a news agency.
Mishu made the announcements from a fifth floor window of the Tuba factory in Hossain Market at Dhaka's Badda using microphone.
She alleged police obstructed them from holding a press conference on the ground floor.
The law enforcers have positioned themselves in front of Hossain Market since Wednesday morning.
At noon, police pushed around 25 protesters out of the factory claiming they were 'outsiders' and not workers.
While Mishu was announcing the programmes, workers threw notes from the building where they said they would not mind taking two months' salaries if the owners or BGMEA came to the factory and paid them.
Around 1,600 workers of the five Tuba Group factories have been on a hunger strike for a straight nine days at the Badda factory to press for payment of three months’ salaries, overtime dues and allowances.