The public university teachers have threatened to stop working completely if the government does not fulfil their demand for a separate pay scale by January 11.
Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association (FBUT) President Prof Farid Uddin Ahmed made the dire warning at a press conference held in Dhaka University’s Teachers’ Club on Saturday afternoon.
Prof Farid Uddin said: “The teachers of 37 public universities across the country will stop working from January 11 if the government doesn’t meet our demands for which we are on protest for the past eight months.”
They have decided to wear black bands on January 3 and observe a three-hour strike on January 7, he said.
The public university teachers have been protesting the proposed national pay scale since May 14, advocating their four-point charter of demand that includes formation of a commission to initiate an independent pay scale for the public university teachers.
Their four-point demand also included the immediate revision of the national pay scale, keeping senior professors and senior secretaries of the government at an equal level of payment.
