RMG workers to stage demo on Sept 21

Kabir Humayun: Garm-ent workers will demonstrate in their factory areas across the country on September 21 protesting the fixation of minimum wage at Tk 8, 000.
They also decided to continue their protest rally until the government fulfills their demand of re-fixing their minimum salary Tk 16,000, reports The Daily Star.
Garment workers under the banner of ‘Garments Workers’ Trade Union Centre (GWTUC) ‘, a platform of RMG workers, announced the decision at a rally yesterday.
Jolly Talukder, general secretary of the organisation, also announced to hold another protest rally in front the Jatiya Press Club on September 28.
“If the government doesn’t fulfill our demand, we’ll continue our protest programme to realise our demand of minimum wage of Tk 16,000,” she said.
Jolly Talukder said, “Workers’ minimum wage must be Tk 16,000 considering the growing prices of essentials,” she said.
Earlier, they held a brief protest rally in front of the Press Club with its former executive president Sadiqur Rahman Shamim in the chair.
On September 13, the government fixed the minimum wage for the RMG workers at Tk 8,000 that will come into effect in December next after the publication of a gazette notification.
The workers’ wages were last raised in 2013.