Underlining that they have been forced to resign on 24 September 2020, workers of Bata Shoe Company’s Dhamrai manufacturing plant staged protest recently demanding reinstatement of jobs.
According to media reports, around 100 workers along with their family members, on 10 January (Sunday), demonstrated and formed a human chain in front of Dhamrai Press Club (beside the Dhaka-Aricha highway) claiming they have been forced to put down papers while underlining that they want their jobs back.
“I would have received around Taka 40 lakh in retirement but was given only Taka 10 lakh…We want either our job back or our children in the same post,” reportedly, maintained a worker underlining that he along with around 210 workers of Bata’s Tongi and Dhamrai manufacturing plants were forced to resign even as Supreme Court advocate Fahad Mahmood Khan, who is representing the workers, said a total of 11 workers filed 11 cases with the labour court accusing Bata, the management and CBA leaders of carrying out the sacking ignoring the labour act 2006.
The aggrieved workers brought several allegations against the management as well as leaders of the collective bargaining agent (CBA) of Bata, while adding that the management had cited losses for having them to leave but when they denied signing the resignation papers, the management and union leaders had allegedly threatened depriving them of benefits.
