Pay salaries, bonus soon or face movement, RMG workers to owners

Garment workers Wednesday demanded paying their salaries, dues and Eid bonus before the 26th of Ramadan as fixed by the government.
The demand was made at a human chain programme arranged by Textile Garments Workers Federation in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
Federation president Abul Hossain said the garment owners must stop attacks on trade union leaders, job termination of workers and repression on them.
He said the owners of several closed factories went into hiding without paying workers’ salaries, and demanded that they be arrested so that they are compelled to provide the dues salaries of the workers.
If the owners do not pay the salaries and dues before Eid, the workers will go for a tougher movement, he said.
General Secretary of Textile Garments Workers Federation Tapan Saha, its presidium member Mala Rani Das, joint general secretary Selim Hossain also spoke at the programme.
Meanwhile, Jatiya Sramik Federation, a workers’ body, demanded Eid bonus of the garments workers equivalent to their basic salary.