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Cargo ship workers have called off the ongoing strike demanding 11 points, including payment of the food allowance. Thursday (October 22) at a meeting held in the Secretariat of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, President of the Bangladesh Shipping Workers Federation. Shah Alam announced the withdrawal of the strike.
The meeting was chaired by the Minister of State Labor and Employment, Mannujan Sufian, and was attended by the government, boat owners and union leaders. The indefinite strike of the ship’s workers began at 12:01 on October 20 to claim 1 point. Eight organizations of the Bangladesh Transport Workers Federation called the strike. The ship’s workers pulled out of the strike following the owners’ demand for a food allowance.
At the meeting, the president of the Maritime Transport Workers Federation said that what we got was incompatible with the price of the goods. Even then, in the current situation in the country, we are accepting it and withdrawing the strike.
Chowdhury Ashiqul Alam, the federation’s general secretary, said: “We regret that the state was embarrassed by the three-day strike.” My call to the workers is that they begin to work with double illusion.
Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, Chairman of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (Passenger Transport), said an agreement had been reached between workers, owners and the government. We want to maintain friendly relations between employers and workers.
The state labor and employment minister said shipping workers and workers have solved the problem through lengthy discussions. ‘Mia Bibi agrees with Kiya Karega Kazi.’ When Mia and Bibi agree, how can parents bring them home with rice and turmeric? We also agree with the Ministry of Labor and Employment. The leaders have called off the ongoing strike. With the withdrawal of this strike, peace will return to public life. Wait for the suffering of the people to end.
According to the decision, from October 1, workers on ships with a capacity of zero to one thousand tons will receive a monthly allowance of one thousand rupees. In addition, workers on ships with a capacity of 1,001 to 1,500 tons will receive a monthly alimony of Tk 1,200 and workers on ships with a maximum capacity of 1,501 tons will receive a monthly alimony of Tk 1,500, the state minister said. He also said that an agreement has been reached between the shipowners and the workers on the matter.
Shipworkers’ 11-point demands include stopping extortion and theft on all vessels and waterways, including bulkheads, paying wages to all levels of shipworkers according to the gazette announced in 2016, providing landing passes, and food allowances for Indian-bound workers, fix sea and night allowances for all ship workers.
I also endorse, commission, reschedule technical assignments; Tk 10 lakh compensation for workers killed in workplace accidents; Issuance of appointment letter, identity card and service book by the owner to each navigator, protection of the navigability of the river and installation of the necessary marks, buoys and streetlights; Examination, distribution and renewal of master-driver certificates, stopping illegal navigation; They also demanded an end to all irregularities and harassment of workers by the Department of Maritime Transport and to guarantee social security for maritime transport workers.
Secretary of Labor and Employment KM Abdus Salam, Director General of the Department of Labor AKM Mizanur Rahman, Director General of the Department of Maritime Transport Comodoro Abu Jafar. Jalal Uddin, Chairman of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, Commodore Golam Sadeq, and other boat owners and union leaders were present.
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