Garment owners and workers Saturday agreed to work together to cool down the labour unrest prevailing in the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector centering increase of the minimum wage. Leaders of BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association) and garment workers at a joint press conference Saturday expressed the view urging the government to find out the people who are working against the sector and bring them under law.
They pointed out that conspiracies were going on at home and abroad to destabilise the industry at a time when negotiations are going on to fix the minimum wage for the garment workers.
“The BGMEA will implement the new wages as soon as the Wage Board declares it,” said BGMEA president Atiqul Islam while addressing the press conference.
He also assured that salary and bonus of RMG workers will be paid before the Eid.
Leaders of 40 RMG workers’ association and trade bodies attended the press conference held at the BGMEA office. Former president Shafiul Islam and voce president Siddiqur Rahman also attended the conference. Earlier, they held a meeting with workers’ representatives and discussed the overall situation prevailing in the RMG sector.
Leaders of the labour workers and BGLES also requested the Wage Board authoritiers to declare the minimum wages as early as possible and assured that owners of RMG factories will implement the new wages.
-With The Independent input
