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Moves to break deadlock in govt-workers talks

By Nurul Kabir
Backstage parkys were on yesterday to break the deadlock in formal negotiations between the government and' the workers.
Seventy-two hour programme of road and rail barricade by the workers of Jute and Textile sectors and 48-hours countrywide work stoppage programme of the Sramik Karmacharl Oihya Parlshad (SKOP) arc lo be started only after 72 hours in case the negotiations fail.
No formal meeting between the concerned parties lo avert the 3-day-kmg shutdown was ^Kduicd to be held yCer
But the concerned ministries will separately talk to the labour leaders of three different sectors today.
Jute Minister Brig. Hannan Shah (retd) will talk to the leaders of Patkal Sramik Karmaehart Sangrain Parlshad today at 1 1 am while the Textile Minister Major Abdul Mannan will sit with the leaders of Textile workers at 10 am
Labour and Manpower Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuyan is scheduled lo talk to the SKOP leaders at 4 pm today.
SKOP leaders, before meeting the Labour and Manpower Minister. will exchange views
with the leaders of Jute and Textile workers at 3 pm.
Meanwhile, the five-party alliance leader Hasanul Hoq Inu met the Finance Minister Salfur Rahman yesterday mor ning to find the ways and means of solving the problem soon.
Incidentally, the five-party move for a round table discussion between the government, labour leaders and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries aimed al reaching a tripartite consensus on the problem has failed' with the postponement of the fAst round of discussion scheduled to be held today.
According to the sources close to the five-party combine. both the government and chamber leaders were not sufficiently responsive lo the move.
Although, no formal meeting was held yesterday between the contending parties, the Labour and Manpower Minister is fcaml lo have persuaded a leader of the Jute workers lo sign agreement with the Jute Ministry on the basis of already agreed points of their demands, sources said.
The minister had a telephonic conversation with the labour leader, the sources added.
Meanwhile, the labour leaders addressed a number of workers' ralltes yesterday afternoon in different Industrial areas of the country and asked the workers to gel ready to successfully observe the pro grammes to begin from December 22.