Newspaper men demand review of wage board by Dec 16
Thursday, 13 December 2007
FE Report
Newspaper men including journalists in a meeting in the city Wednesday demanded review of the Sixth Wage Board Award by December 16.
They made the demand in the meeting they held blocking the road in front of the National Press Club protesting against 'inconsistencies' in the Sixth Wage Board Award declared by the government.
They also took out a procession preceded by the meeting held under the banner of Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP), a platform of journalists and all other newspaper employees.
In the meeting they also decided to announce a rigorous programme if the government does not review the Sixth Wage Board Award by December 16.
They demanded removal of the "inconsistencies" in the recently announced Wage Board Award on pay and allowances for journalists and newspaper workers.
They demanded that the government form a committee by December 16 to review the Wage Board saying that they would stage a sit-in programme at the same venue on December 17 to announce an action programme, if the review committee is not constituted.
Presided over by BFUJ president and Sangbadik Karmachari Oikya Parishad leader Mozammel Haque, former BFUJ president and editor of The Bangladesh Observer Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, BFUJ secretary general Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, Altaf Mahmud, Azizul Haque Banna and others also addressed the gathering.
The speakers at the meeting said the newly declared Wage Board Award would deprive the journalists as it would reduce wages of most of the newsmen.
The new Wage Board Award will curtail some of the benefits the journalists are enjoying. The existing laws do not permit curtailing any given benefit.
The government declared the Sixth Wage Board Award on November 27 last.
UNB adds: The SSKOP also demanded stopping retrenchment in the daily Ittefaq and reinstatement of those sacked and resolution of the problem in the Bangladesh Observer.
If the demands not met, the leaders also threatened to go for work abstention and wear black badges, form a human chain on the street from December 17.
Newspaper men including journalists in a meeting in the city Wednesday demanded review of the Sixth Wage Board Award by December 16.
They made the demand in the meeting they held blocking the road in front of the National Press Club protesting against 'inconsistencies' in the Sixth Wage Board Award declared by the government.
They also took out a procession preceded by the meeting held under the banner of Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP), a platform of journalists and all other newspaper employees.
In the meeting they also decided to announce a rigorous programme if the government does not review the Sixth Wage Board Award by December 16.
They demanded removal of the "inconsistencies" in the recently announced Wage Board Award on pay and allowances for journalists and newspaper workers.
They demanded that the government form a committee by December 16 to review the Wage Board saying that they would stage a sit-in programme at the same venue on December 17 to announce an action programme, if the review committee is not constituted.
Presided over by BFUJ president and Sangbadik Karmachari Oikya Parishad leader Mozammel Haque, former BFUJ president and editor of The Bangladesh Observer Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, BFUJ secretary general Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, Altaf Mahmud, Azizul Haque Banna and others also addressed the gathering.
The speakers at the meeting said the newly declared Wage Board Award would deprive the journalists as it would reduce wages of most of the newsmen.
The new Wage Board Award will curtail some of the benefits the journalists are enjoying. The existing laws do not permit curtailing any given benefit.
The government declared the Sixth Wage Board Award on November 27 last.
UNB adds: The SSKOP also demanded stopping retrenchment in the daily Ittefaq and reinstatement of those sacked and resolution of the problem in the Bangladesh Observer.
If the demands not met, the leaders also threatened to go for work abstention and wear black badges, form a human chain on the street from December 17.