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DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh garment factories have fired hundreds of workers since protests in October demanding higher wages, three labour unions representing half a million workers told Reuters ...
On November 7, the Bangladesh government announced a new salary structure for protesting garment workers, raising the monthly minimum wage to ~US$113, to take effect December 1, 2023. The garment workers union heavily criticized this increase for being too small, announcing their intention to continue striking.
In an interview, Amin said the prize was a recognition of Bangladesh's trade union and garment workers' movement and a show of respect for the dead of the 2005 and 2012 disasters. [ 13 ] In June 2016, the factory of Bangladeshi garment company Tejgaon Textile was closed down after a Bangladesh Accord inspection had identified major structural ...
The editor of the newspaper was Badruddin. [3] In 1960's, The National Press Trust, which was a government-owned organization, took over and operated directly a number of the more prominent newspapers. Among these were two of the three principal English-language newspapers, the Pakistan Times, which has the largest circulation, and the Morning ...
Thousands of people protested peacefully in Bangladesh's capital Saturday to demand justice for more than 200 students and others killed during protests last month, but violence was reported at ...
In November 1997, the ILO committee directed a complaint towards the government of Bangladesh that included a demand for further information about this attack. The Bangladeshi government did not provide any further information. [8] In that year, BIGUF was officially registered as a trade union. [7]
DHAKA (Reuters) -The Bangladesh government has decided to impose a curfew across the country and deploy the army, BBC Bangla reported on Friday, citing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's press ...
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the official government-owned news agency of Bangladesh, was created on 1 January 1972 from the Dhaka bureau of the state-owned. Abul Kalam Azad , who was formerly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 's press secretary, became its chief editor in 2014. [ 31 ]