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Trade union leaders at a rally on Friday urged the government to set a national minimum wage.
The Samajtantrik Sramik Front organised the rally in front of the National Press Club marking its 42nd founding anniversary, said a press release.
The unionists demanded fair wages for all workers (…)
Presided over by Advocate Jahanara Haque, President of the organization and conducted by joint Secretary Sakhawat Hossain Dulal today 18 November 2023 an inauguration ceremony of Jai Bangla Jatiya Sramik Federation, Reg No- BAJAFE-45-2023 and Executive Committee meeting were held at 11 am at (…)
Police sued 11,000 unnamed garment workers over vandalism and clashes with law enforcers in Gazipur’s Konabari area.
Law enforcers, both on the riot truck and on foot, use firearms to disperse garment workers who have been protesting for better wage for 10 days. The photo was taken at Jamgara (…)
Textile workers went on strike at the end of October to demand higher pay. After several days of protests, the minimum wage was raised by 56%, a far cry from their demands. The country’s economic model seems to be gasping for breath.
Just over ten years after the Rana Plaza disaster on 24 (…)
Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstrating against a new minimum salary of £92 a month
A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding a wage increase. Anjuara Khatun, a (…)
Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries
Police in Bangladesh are investigating the murder of a prominent trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory owner (…)
Looking back on a corporate crime in Bangladesh that cost over 1,000 lives
The Rana Plaza textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed on 24 April 2013, burying some 5,000 people underneath. The day before, cracks had been discovered in the walls of the factory building and the collapse of (…)
Bangladesh on 24 January passed a law that seeks the universalisation of pension schemes towards the social security coverage of Bangladeshi citizens.
Called the Universal Pension Management Bill, the measure is a response to the low number of people in Bangladesh who enjoy social protection. (…)
At least 49 people, including nine firefighters, were killed and over 200 injured in a fire and massive explosion at a privately-run inland container depot at Sitakunda on the outskirts of the country’s port city Chattogram on Saturday night.
The rescue officials said that the victims in the (…)
On 26 November 2021, a meeting of the Central Committee of the Bangladesh Workers’ Federation was held under the chairmanship of Syed Kudrat-e-Khoda Totan, Executive President of the Central Committee of the organization and conducted by the General Secretary AAM Fayez Hossain. At the beginning (…)
On 25 September 2021 a public meeting of sugarcane workers was held in Gaibandha, a far northern district of Bangladesh. The meeting was organized by the coalition of several workers’ organizations including Bangladesh Shramik Federation. AAM Fayez Hossain, General Secretary of the Federation (…)
Today, September 25, 2021, at the initiative of Sramik Karmachari Sangram Parishad, Bangladesh Akhchasi Union and Krishak organizations, Gaibandha Public Library Hall at 11 am a representative meeting to protest against the closure or denationalization of sugar mills and demand the opening laid (…)
A factory fire in Bangladesh has killed 52 people and injured 30 others, emergency services have said.
The blaze broke out on Thursday night at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town near the capital Dhaka.
Authorities told AP news agency the fire took hold because (…)
Many migrants seeking better employment opportunities abroad fall victim to human trafficking. Photo: IOM/Francesco MalavoltaTasneem Tayeb
We all aspire to “a better future”. While the idea of a better future and what it entails varies from people to people, dreamer to dreamer, what remains (…)
A joint press conference was held demanding arrest, trial and punishment of slain garment workers Rafiqul Islam and in the protest of police harassment of innocent workers at the imitative of Motherland Garment Workers Federation, Readymade Garment Workers Federation, Bangladesh Garment and (…)
The outcome of the continuous movement of the garment workers for the last couple of days is as follows :
Dated 29/10/2020
MoU
On 29 October 2020 a Memorandum of Understanding Meeting was held at the Department of Factory and Establishment Inspection, Dhaka district office in order to (…)
Rallies and Humanchain were held under the joint initiative of Garment Shramik and Shilpa Rakka Jatiya Manch and Bangladesh Labor Rights Forum demanding immediate arrest and punishment of the rapists of Ritu, a garment worker of Dream Knitwear Ltd. in Haji Bari Matin Gate area of Kashimpur (…)
At the call of 20 organizations, a Rally and Human Chain held in front of National Press Club, Dhaka, demanding a trial for the killing of Rafiqul Islam, a garment worker.
On 26 September 2020, on Saturday, at 11 am in front of National Press Club, Dhaka, the rally and human chain was held, (…)
World Day for Decent Work 2019 Theme: invest in the care economy. With this theme keeping in mind Bangladesh Sangjukto Shramik Federation and Bangladesh Sanjukto Building and Wood Workers’ Federation organized a human chain today on 7 October 2019 at 10:30 am to 12 noon in front of National (…)
Six years after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse killed over a thousand people, Bangladeshi workers are striking for better wages and safer conditions.
On April 23, 2013, a local television crew shot footage of cracks in the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building (…)
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