River vessel workers go on strike from today

Trailer workers strike postponed in Ctg

KERANIGANJ: River vessel workers has announced to enforce an indefinite strike across the country from today (Tuesday) to press home their 7-point demand, reports UNB.
The strike, called by Bangladesh River Vessel Workers Federation, will be come into effect from 12:00am, said Shah Alam, president of the federation.
The decision was taken from a meeting of the federation at its office at Sadarghat on Sunday night.
Earlier, the vessel workers went on strike on April 21 over the same demands. Following assurance from the government to meet their demands, they postponed their strike.
As their demands were not fulfilled in the last three months, they workers have decided to go on a strike again, added the federation president. Their demands include raising the minimum basic wage of the vessel workers to Tk 10,000 from the existing Tk 4,150, giving them formal appointment, issuing identity cards and service book, and ensuring their social security.
They decided not to run any river vessel on the waterways until their demands are met, said Chowdhury Ashiqul Alam, general secretary of the federation.
STAFF REPORTER adds from Chittagong: The workers of cargo ships plying the inland water-ways across the country called strike for an indefinite period in the port city demanding wage hike.
With 15 points demand is including to fix minimum wage Tk15, 000, new salary structure, compensation for death workers and stopped robbery in water ways, the workers came up with the declaration of work abstention yesterday in a press briefing at port city.
Bashir Ahmed, coordinator of Chittagong region of Nou-Sramik Sangram Parishad, “Our strike will be continued until our demand is met. From 2012 we are demanding to hike our salary. Our demands are yet to be realised though in different assurance was given to obey our demand.
“The owners on April 2016 took 30 days to realised our demand, then with their assurance we have postponed our movement, however, three months have passed they are yet to realise our demands.
“So now we have no other way but go on work abstention,” added Bashir Ahmed.
Over 100,000 workers are working at cargo ships across the country at 25,000 lighter ships. The lighter ships used to carry goods from mother vessels from outer anchorage of Chittagong port. With the work abstention of the lighter ships the activities of loading and unload at mother vessels will be disrupted.
On the other hand the strike called by Trailer from yesterdayhas been postponed at evening with the assurance of City mayor AJM Nasir Uddin.   After holding a meeting with the mayor the trailer workers postponed their strike for a month.
Around 7,000 prime movers did not work since 8am till 6pm on Monday
The strike was called to press home their seven-point charter of demands which include setting up the port terminal and reduce taxes imposed by the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). Other demands include putting an end to the practice of extortion in the name of monitoring loading and providing license to the operators.

River vessel workers go on strike from today

Trailer workers strike postponed in Ctg

KERANIGANJ: River vessel workers has announced to enforce an indefinite strike across the country from today (Tuesday) to press home their 7-point demand, reports UNB. The strike, called by Bangladesh River Vessel Workers Federation, will be come into effect from 12:00am, said Shah Alam, president of the federation. The decision was taken from a meeting of the federation at its office at Sadarghat on Sunday night. Earlier, the vessel workers went on strike on April 21 over the same demands. Following assurance from the government to meet their demands, they postponed their strike. As their demands were not fulfilled in the last three months, they workers have decided to go on a strike again, added the federation president. Their demands include raising the minimum basic wage of the vessel workers to Tk 10,000 from the existing Tk 4,150, giving them formal appointment, issuing identity cards and service book, and ensuring their social security. They decided not to run any river vessel on the waterways until their demands are met, said Chowdhury Ashiqul Alam, general secretary of the federation. STAFF REPORTER adds from Chittagong: The workers of cargo ships plying the inland water-ways across the country called strike for an indefinite period in the port city demanding wage hike. With 15 points demand is including to fix minimum wage Tk15, 000, new salary structure, compensation for death workers and stopped robbery in water ways, the workers came up with the declaration of work abstention yesterday in a press briefing at port city. Bashir Ahmed, coordinator of Chittagong region of Nou-Sramik Sangram Parishad, Our strike will be continued until our demand is met. From 2012 we are demanding to hike our salary. Our demands are yet to be realised though in different assurance was given to obey our demand. The owners on April 2016 took 30 days to realised our demand, then with their assurance we have postponed our movement, however, three months have passed they are yet to realise our demands. So now we have no other way but go on work abstention, added Bashir Ahmed. Over 100,000 workers are working at cargo ships across the country at 25,000 lighter ships. The lighter ships used to carry goods from mother vessels from outer anchorage of Chittagong port. With the work abstention of the lighter ships the activities of loading and unload at mother vessels will be disrupted. On the other hand the strike called by Trailer from yesterdayhas been postponed at evening with the assurance of City mayor AJM Nasir Uddin. After holding a meeting with the mayor the trailer workers postponed their strike for a month. Around 7,000 prime movers did not work since 8am till 6pm on Monday The strike was called to press home their seven-point charter of demands which include setting up the port terminal and reduce taxes imposed by the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). Other demands include putting an end to the practice of extortion in the name of monitoring loading and providing license to the operators.