A strike by the water transport workers at Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port demanding pay hike has hit operations at the port following suspension of unloading of imported goods at the port’s outer anchorage and their subsequent transportation across Bangladesh, recently.
This was claimed in media reports, which added water transport workers under the platform Noujan Sramik Sangram Parishad enforced an indefinite countrywide work abstention from 12:01 am Sunday (27th November) with a 10-point demand, which include a minimum monthly wage of Taka 20,000 and Taka 10 lakh as compensation for both natural and accidental deaths even if another platform of eight workers’ organisations, Bangladesh Water Transport Workers Federation, also expressed solidarity with the work abstention.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media, Joint General Secretary of the federation, Nabi Alam, reportedly said that after a movement, the Government had fixed the minimum wage in the range of Taka 5,700 to Taka 6,800 for five years and that it was supposed to be raised in June 2021.
