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Limited trade unionism soon

Says adviser

Star Business Report
Jute and Textiles Adviser Anwarul Iqbal has said government will allow limited trade unionism at factories soon in order to protect workers' rights.
Presently, such trade unionism is prohibited under the state of emergency.
"The Ministry of Home Affairs has already completed its preliminary task for allowing trade unionism to a limited extent," Iqbal told the launching ceremony of a service book for readymade garment (RMG) workers at the BGMEA auditoriumyesterday.
Urging a better living standard for the RMG workers the adviser asked the garment owners to monitor the distribution and maintenance of such service books.
BGMEA (Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association) and BKMEA (Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association) have introduced a 16-page sendee book for the first time in the country for the RMG workers to bring transparency in paying wages to them and to ensure other rights.
The distribution of these books among the workers will be completed within the next two months, said BGMEA President Anwar-Ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez at the function.
""BGMEA will take legal actions against those owners
who will not ensure such distribution of service books within the stipulated time," Parvez warned, informing the ceremony that a cell has already been opened at the BGMEA to monitor the service book distribution.
Parvez said an orientation course on introducing welfare committees for the RMG workers at factory level will also be launched by the middle of the next month.
He reiterated his call to the government to beef up measures, like some lucky African LDCs, through the foreign ministry for ensuring duty- and quota-free market access of Bangladesh RMG products to the developed countries.
"In this case Bangladesh government can utilise the Bangladeshi Army working for restoring peace in Africa as a tool for negotiations," he suggested.
The government should appoint issue-based lobbyist firms in different countries to ensure better market access of Bangladeshi products to other countries, Parvez added.
The BGMEA chief said a number of studies on the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FEA) should be conducted in the interest of enhancing bilateral trades to bolster economic activities.
"But unfortunately there has been no step to conduct such an impact study on both government and private sector entrepreneurs' part," Parvez lamented.