Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Friday called for making
Saturday’s grand rally of readymade garments workers a success.
Garments Sramik Samannoy Parishad, an association of RMG workers, will
organize the rally in the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan to demand
rational minimum wages for the garment workers for their survival.
Briefing journalists at the temporary office of the association,
Shahjahan Khan, also the convenor of Garments Sramik Samannoy
Parishad, said the logical minimum wages for the RMG workers should be
ensured for the sake of protecting the country’s garment industry.
He said the grand workers rally will not be held for gaining any
political benefit. The reactionary clique has become frightened seeing
the enthusiasm among the readymade garment workers centering the
rally. “It is now the demand of time to forge a strong unity against
the ‘conspiracy’ to confine women workers in the houses. The rally
will be held protesting the retrenchment of RMG workers,” Shahjahan
Khan added. In the rally, the garments workers will place their
demands for ensuring rational minimum wages, reinstatement of GSP
facilities, and providing adequate compensation to the victims of Rana
Plaza collapse and devastating fire incident of Tajreen Garments
factory. Shajahan Khan will preside over the rally scheduled to
begin at 2 pm. Women leader Shirin Akter, labour leaders ZM Kamrul
Anam, Abul Hossain, Bodruddoza Nizam, Jahanara Begum, Sirajul Islam
Rony, Nazma Akter, Joynal Abedin, Nurul Islam, Shamima Nasrin, Alamgir
Rony, Naimul Ahsan and Lovely Yasmin were, among others, present in
the press briefing. – UNB
