Tuba workers to continue strike

The workers of Tuba Group have announced fresh demonstrations alongside their ongoing fast-unto-death agitation to press for their five-point-demand, including payment of overdue salaries and allowances. They rejected a statement by the garment owners’ association, BGMEA that they might get a part of their dues within a week. Garment Workers Solidarity Forum President Mushrefa Mishu announced the new programmes at a press conference at Hossain Super Market in Dhaka’s Badda, which houses the Tuba Group’s five readymade garment factories, on Friday. Mishu said her organisation had formed a ‘Toba Group Workers Movement Committee’, which would go around the country campaigning for workers’ rights. Mishu, a workers’ leader, joined the Tuba Group workers in their hunger strike on Monday. Besides her organisation, 11 other leftist organisations including the Communist Party of Bangladesh and BSD have expressed solidarity with the Tuba Group workers, according to bdnews24.com.