If demands of Railway Engineering Div Employees Assoc in Pakshi not met, larger movement threatened
TA Panna, Roving Correspondent, Iswardi
Bangladesh Railway Engineering Division Employees Association has held a sit-in program to implement the twelve-point demands, including all the holidays in the government gazette, two-day weekly leave, and the implementation of the working hours of all employees at the field level from nine to five like all government organizations.
These programs were held on Sunday at the Pakshi Hashem Ali Auditorium by the Railway Engineering Division Employees Association.
At the program, Railway Pakshi Divisional Engineer/1 Abdul Hanif, Pakshi Divisional Engineer/2 Nazib Kaiser and Pakshi Divisional Bridge Engineer Anwar Hossain agreed with the demands of the organizers and gave important guiding speeches along with various explanations of the demands. Under the chairmanship of labor leader Md. Nasir UddinFarooq, thirty leaders including Saiful Islam, Central Organizing Secretary of the Nationalist Railway Workers and Employees Party, ArifulIslam, Joint General Secretary of the BRL Central Committee, Aman Ullah, Chief Advisor of the Engineering Department Employees Association, Monirul Islam, Abul Kashem, Pakshi President Ra
The speakers announced a call for a larger movement if the twelve-point demands, including the cancellation of the ration allowance of 50 taka within a specified time and the provision of compulsory ration as before and the imposition of Section 144 on the railways, are not met, including the provision of risk allowance to all the officers and employees of the engineering department who are directly involved in the maintenance of the railways during any national disaster and constantly risking their lives. It is worth noting that sit-in programs were also held in Dhaka, Chittagong, Lalmonirhat and Pa
