Life back in the state-owned jute mills in Khulna region on Saturday (Jan.4) following the workers returned to their respective workplaces after withdrawing their six-day ‘fast-unto-death’ strike.
The jute mills workers, who had been staging the strike to press for 11- point demands, withdrew their strike on Friday night after holding a meeting with Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, said the convener of Bangladesh state-owned Jute mills CBA, non-CBA Songram Parishad.
Today, the workers started to join their workplaces from 6 am while the government assured them to provide pay-slip by January 16 as per the National Wage Scale-2015, said Murad Hossain, joint-convener of the aforesaid organization.
About 50,000 workers of nine state-owned jute mills –Star, Platinum, Crescent, Alim, Eastern, Daulatpur and Khalishpur jute mills in Khulna and JJI and Carpeting jute mills in Jashore– started a ‘fast-unto-death’ strike from December 29 to press their 11-point demands, including implementation ofthe wage commission and payment of regular wages.