8th Wage Board
SSKOP ultimatum to govt
Newspapermen stage a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club yesterday, demanding immediate declaration of the eighth wage board, which is long overdue. Photo: STAR
Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP), a platform of journalists, press workers and general employees of the newspaper industries, yesterday demanded that the government announce the 8th Wage Board by April 2. Otherwise, they would observe a work stoppage from 10:00am to 4:00pm across the country on April 3 and stage a sit-in in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city from 11:00am to 4:00pm. The programme was announced at a rally in front of the Press Club with Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) President Ruhul Amin Gazi in the chair. BFUJ President Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Secretary Generals Abdul Jalil Bhuyian and Shawkat Mahmud, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Presidents Omar Faruque and Abdus Shahid, General Secretaries Shaban Mahmud and Baker Hossain, Press Workers Federation President Alamgir Hossain Khan and Secretary General Kamal Uddin and General Employees Federation Matiur Rahman Talukder and Secretary General Khairul Islam spoke at the rally. The SSKOP leaders vowed to continue the movement until the wage board was announced. “It is our legitimate right and we must achieve it in the month of our independence,” they said.
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