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Jute mill workers in Khulna region return to workplaces
KHULNA, Jan 4, 2020(BSS)- Workers of the state-owned jute mills in Khulna
region today returned to their respective workplaces after withdrawing their
six-day ‘fast-unto-death’ strike.
The jute mills workers, who had been staging the strike to press for 11-
point demands, withdrew their strike last night after holding a meeting with
Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, said Sardar Abdul Hamid,
convener of Bangladesh state-owned Jute mills CBA, non-CBA Songram Parishad.
Today, the workers started to join their workplaces from 6 am while the
government assured them to provide pay-slip by January 16 as per the National
Wage Scale-2015, said Murad Hossain, joint-convener of the aforesaid
organisation.
About 50,000 workers of nine state-owned jute mills –Star, Platinum,
Crescent, Alim, Eastern, Daulatpur and Khalishpur jute mills in Khulna and
JJI and Carpeting jute mills in Jashore– started a ‘fast-unto-death’ strike
from December 29 to press their 11-point demands, including implementation of
the wage commission and payment of regular wages.
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