Water transport workers threaten strike tomorrow
Our Correspondent, Barisal
Water transport workers threatened to go on indefinite strike tomorrow as their deadline to the government to meet their demands, including publication of a government gazette on a new pay scale and its implementation, expires today.This is the third time the workers called strike in eight months. Earlier on September 25 last year and January 11, they called strikes and backtracked after assurance from the government and owners. Leaders of the launch workers association criticised the government for its attitude towards them at an assembly at their Barisal port office with Association President Golam Mawla in the chair on May 18. The leaders said they submitted a demand note to the government of increasing the pay scale, benefit and insurance and development of human resources, among other issues, on April 15 last year. "As the government ignored our demands, we called strikes twice and cancelled them following the government's pledge to meet them," a leader said.
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