Garments Workers’ Trade Union staged a demonstration in Savar yesterday to press home their six-point demands to ensure the safety of garment workers at workplaces and the implementation of International Labour Law Convention.
The organisation also formed a human chain at the Rana Plaza collapse site, where they made their demands.
Later, the workers of readymade garments factories put up a barricade on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway.
Apart from the organisation’s leaders and activists, relatives and family members of the Rana Plaza collapse victims took part in the agitation programme.
Speakers at the human chain said although it has been over one year since the Rana Plaza collapse, victims of the incident have yet to receive the compensation which they deserved to get.
A worker said they had only received assurances of compensation, but have not been compensated in more than a year since the tragedy.
They said many Rana Plaza victims, who had been severely injured, were passing their days in starvation as they are not able to work.
The other demands include raising the monthly wages of workers to Tk8,000, improving workplace safety, allowing workers to enjoy dearness allowances until a fresh wage is reviewed, arresting the owners who conduct poor labour practices and ensuring the smooth running of trade unions.
Emdadul Haque, president of the Garments Workers’ Trade Union, said although they had submitted applications to BGMEA several times, they did not take any actions toward compensating the workers.
