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Worker leaders want healthy union activity: Garment owners afraid of old fashioned TUs Special Correspondent
As the government has constituted a committee to suggest modalities of introducing trade union in the garment sector, the concerned quarters are worried whether such unions would be old-fashioned and traditional ones or responsible organisations to contribute positively towards better productivity and labour welfare.
The trade federation leaders and the factory owners are of the opinion that trade union should be organised from within the factories and not by infiltrators from outside.  |
Govt won’t tolerate unrest in RMG sector: Hasina: Owners urged to ensure all due facilities for workers
UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday categorically said the government wouldn't tolerate anymore chaotic situation in the export-oriented garment sector and urged the factory owners to ensure all types of requisite facilities for the workers.
Inaugurating the 5th Bangladesh Knitwear Exhibition 2009, she pointed out that with the present low-scale salaries the garment workers find it very difficult to make both ends meet.
Drawing attention of the apparel industries' owners to a stark disparity, the Prime Minister said in many cases, the money spent on a day's shopping by an owner is more than the monthly salary of a garment worker. |
Jail Killing Day today
Staff Reporter
The nation will observe the Jail Killing Day today marking the gruesome murder of four national leaders inside the Dhaka Central Jail in 1975.
Four top leaders of Awami League (AL) -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, A H M Quamruzzaman and Captain Mansur Ali-were shot dead on the fateful day, less than three months after the August 15 massacre.
These leaders led the country's independence war when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was detained by Pakistani junta, were sent to jail after the killing of Father of the Nation along with most of his family members. |
Bangabandhu murder a stigma on nation: State counsel BSS, Dhaka
Chief counsel for the state Anisul Haque in the Bangabandhu murder case started presenting his reply on Monday at the end of the submission of arguments for the appellants.
Initiating his submission in an emotion-choked voice, the counsel recalled the contribution of Bangabandhu to establishing a new nation and said the importance of the case matter is not confined to a single family now, it has spread on the whole nation.
"We would like to free the nation from the black stigma, which was created by committing a barbaric act in 1975. |
Hartal observed at Kishoreganj demanding dist's integrity
Staff Reporter
A dawn to dusk hartal at the call of Nagorik committee, Kishoreganj unit, was observed in Kishoreganj yesterday in support of the demand for retaining integrity of the district.
The people of 11 upazilas out of 13 under the district came out on the streets on the day to extend their solidarity to the day long hartal programmes protesting the move to promote Bhairab as a district. All the government, semi-government and private
offices remained closed in the district excepting Bhairab upazila following the hartal. |
Bill to return vested properties to rightful owners gets cabinet nod Staff Reporter
The government yesterday gave final approval to Vested Property Return (Amendment) Bill 2009 for restoring vested properties to their rightful owners.
The decision came from the weekly cabinet meeting yesterday at the secretariat. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting.
Land and other properties left behind after the 1947 partition of the subcontinent and after the 1965 India-Pakistan war were vested in state ownership. Such properties were brought under the Enemy Property Act after the 1965 war and under the Vested Property Act after liberation of Bangladesh. |
Dhaka to seek list of duty-free exports at WTO summit
BSS, Dhaka
In the forthcoming WTO summit in Geneva, Bangladesh would seek the working out of a clear list of exports from LDCs to be eligible for duty free and quota free access to the developed countries like the USA under the 97 percent market opening.
It is important to bring thrust to new exports and restructure the country's manufacturing sector, said an official in the ministry of commerce.
Moreover, an endless wait for implementing the duty free offer is changing the entire context of the Doha Development round, he said. |
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Internet Edition. November 3, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
