Govt urged to provide vaccine to garment workers

GBNEWS24 DESK//

Leaders of Garment Sramik Sanhati on Friday at a protest rally in front of the National Press Club called on the government to administer Covid vaccine to the readymade garment workers on priority basis.

President of the organisation Taslima Akter, who chaired the rally, urged the government and the factory owners to vaccinate the garment workers as soon as possible to ensure their safety.

General Secretary of the organisation Julhas Babu said that garment factory owners were facing various repression at different factories during the Covid pandemic.

He demanded that the government should ensure arrest and trial of the killers of a garment worker, who was killed in police firing on June 13 at Dhaka EPZ.

Central leaders Prabir Saha, Pradip Roy and Babul Hossain, among others, spoke at the rally.

The rally was followed by a protest procession.

Textile Garments Workers Federation also organised a separate rally in front of the National Press Club protesting at the killing of a RMG worker of Dhaka EPZ.

President of the organisation Abul Hossain presided over the rally, while general secretary Tapan Saha, leaders Rafiqul Islam Sujan and Shah Alam Hossain spoke, among others.