SSKOP for fresh gazette notification on Sixth Wage Board Award
Monday, 10 December 2007
FE Report
Sangbadik Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP) Sunday urged the government to publish a fresh gazette notification after amending the newly-announced Sixth Wage Board Award to ensure all financial benefits, including salaries and allowances as recommended by the wage board earlier.
The SSKOP leaders also decided to hold a rally in front of the National Press Club at 11am and observe a four-hour token work abstention from 10am to 2pm in all newspapers and news agencies on December 12 to press home their demands for bringing amendment to the Six Wage Board Award and resolving the crises in the daily Ittefaq and the Bangladesh Observer.
The SSKOP took the decisions in an emergency meeting, held at the National Press Club with its convener Mozammel Hoque in the chair.
It was also attended, among others, by Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Ruhul Amin Gazi, Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, Altaf Mahmud, Azizul Huq Banna, Omar Faruk, Sarder Farid Ahmed, Fazle Imam, Motiur Rahman Talukder, Abul Hashem and Khairul Islam.
The SSKOP expressed their deep resentment as the newly-announced Sixth Wage Board Award failed to fulfil the aspirations of the journalists, press workers and employees.
The SSKOP leaders said the government has unilaterally published the gazette notification deducting or cutting salaries, allowances and other financial benefits without fully following the recommendations of the wage board.
Such unilateral publication of the gazette notification has created resentment and disappointment among journalists, employees and workers, they said.
The meeting also expressed resentment as the government has not yet taken steps to stop retrenchment of journalists, workers and employees of the daily Ittefaq. The government also failed to resolve the crisis of the Bangladesh Observer.
The SSKOP will hold an extended meeting of three federations, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and unit chiefs and deputy unit chiefs and senior journalists at 11am on December 11 at the National Press Club to chalk out a fresh action programme.
Sangbadik Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP) Sunday urged the government to publish a fresh gazette notification after amending the newly-announced Sixth Wage Board Award to ensure all financial benefits, including salaries and allowances as recommended by the wage board earlier.
The SSKOP leaders also decided to hold a rally in front of the National Press Club at 11am and observe a four-hour token work abstention from 10am to 2pm in all newspapers and news agencies on December 12 to press home their demands for bringing amendment to the Six Wage Board Award and resolving the crises in the daily Ittefaq and the Bangladesh Observer.
The SSKOP took the decisions in an emergency meeting, held at the National Press Club with its convener Mozammel Hoque in the chair.
It was also attended, among others, by Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Ruhul Amin Gazi, Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, Altaf Mahmud, Azizul Huq Banna, Omar Faruk, Sarder Farid Ahmed, Fazle Imam, Motiur Rahman Talukder, Abul Hashem and Khairul Islam.
The SSKOP expressed their deep resentment as the newly-announced Sixth Wage Board Award failed to fulfil the aspirations of the journalists, press workers and employees.
The SSKOP leaders said the government has unilaterally published the gazette notification deducting or cutting salaries, allowances and other financial benefits without fully following the recommendations of the wage board.
Such unilateral publication of the gazette notification has created resentment and disappointment among journalists, employees and workers, they said.
The meeting also expressed resentment as the government has not yet taken steps to stop retrenchment of journalists, workers and employees of the daily Ittefaq. The government also failed to resolve the crisis of the Bangladesh Observer.
The SSKOP will hold an extended meeting of three federations, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and unit chiefs and deputy unit chiefs and senior journalists at 11am on December 11 at the National Press Club to chalk out a fresh action programme.