Leaders of the National Garment Workers' Federation on Thursday demanded the immediate withdrawal of ‘baseless’ cases, filed against 20,000 garment workers during their movement for higher wages.
The NGWF organised a press conference at the National Press Club, where its president Amirul Haque Amin read a prepared statement.
Amirul Haque raised six key demands, including holding trials for the killings of four garment workers by police during the wage increase movement and punishing those responsible, providing compensation to the families of the workers killed, according to Section 121 of the International Labour Organisation, stopping the mass arrests of garment leaders and workers, withdrawing 43 ‘baseless’ cases filed against 20,000 workers and stopping the inclusion of garment workers’ names on blacklists.
He also announced that the NGWF and other garment workers’ rights bodies would launch countrywide movements if their six-point demands were not met immediately.
Labour leader Abul Hossain also expressed solidarity with the NGWF’s demands and called on the government and garment factory owners to fulfil them.
Central leaders of the NGWF, including Faridul Islam, Aleya Begum, Sweety Sultana, and others attended the press conference.
