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Biman faces CBA trouble

Employees go on non-stop strike from today to press for their demands

Staff Correspondent
Flight operations and other regular activities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines might be hampered as Biman's CBA calls a non-stop strike from 6:00am today to press home its seven-point demands.
Insiders say flight operations might see disruption as Biman staffs provide ground handling services including loading and unloading to different airlines operating in the country.
The Biman authorities, however, vowed to keep flight operations normal.
A press release issued last night by Biman's general manager of public relations department said all the unions and the officers associations were with Biman Management at such hour of the airlines.
It further said the airlines had a total of eight registered unions and CBA was but one of them.
"We have called the strike as Biman authorities did not take any move to realise our demands before the deadline,” said CBA president Moshiqur Rahman.
The demands include withdrawal of two cases against Moshiqur, who is also the president of Biman Sramik League.
Several hundred workers and employees of the national flag carrier yesterday laid an eight-hour siege to
Biman headquarters Balaka in the city from 9:00am to 5:00pm to press home the demands.
They threatened to start the non-stop strike from 6:00am today if their demands were not met by 5:00 last evening.
During yesterday's seize, officials ranked between managing director and deputy general manager were barred from entering Biman HQ Balaka Bhaban.
Meanwhile, Biman's acting managing director AM Mosaddique Ahmed and other top officials held a meeting with representatives from different unions and associations of Biman at its administrative building.
The representatives assured the authorities of not supporting the 'illegal' strike, claimed a press release sent by Biman's public relations department.
Earlier on Sunday night, a group of Biman workers and employees kept Mosaddique Ahmed confined to his office room at Balaka to press home their demands.
After around 12 hours of confinement, Mosaddique came out of his office around 2:00am yesterday under police escort.
The other demands include implementation of a new organogram, providing cent percent medical allowance, increasing meal allowance from Tk 50 to Tk 150 and regularising the casual staff.
The cases against Moshiqur were filed around six months ago for threatening Biman's Company Affairs Manager Fazlur Rahman and for talking to media.
The Biman authorities formed an investigation committee after filing of
the cases. The committee has recently submitted its probe report against Moshiqur.
Earlier in March last year, some staff of Biman staged demonstrations under the banner of "Biman Bachao Oikya Parishad" to press home their several demands including resignation of its chairman and board members.
They claimed that due to the Board's inefficiency, the national flag carrier had incurred a loss of Tk 1,000 crore.
Moshiqur played a vital role in that demonstration and the cases were filed against him for that role, said a CBA leader asking not to be identified.
The earlier demonstration however lost its steam after a couple of weeks following interference from the government high-ups.