The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Two top trade union leaders of the country have urged the Kuwaiti trade union movement to extend a helping hand to Bangladeshi workers facing repression in Kuwait and deportation by the authorities.

In a joint letter sent by email, Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal president Nazrul Islam Khan and Jatiya Sramik League general secretary Roy Ramesh Chandra made the appeal to the president and general secretary of Kuwait Trade Union Federation.

The two trade union leaders expressed their anguish at the reported torture on the Bangladeshi workers and their deportation back home empty handed.

They hoped that the Kuwaiti trade union movement would give due importance to the issue and hold constructive talks with the employers in Kuwait so that the Bangladeshi workers could continue to work in that country.

The two leaders also urged the Kuwait trade union movement for its initiative to take back to work those workers who were being deported due to misreporting.

Nazrul Islam Khan, an alternate member of ILO governing body, and Roy Ramesh Chandra Nazrul, are both executive members of Asia Pacific committee, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).