Public univ teachers to strike for 3hr every Sunday in protest

Teachers of different public universities will observe a three-hour work abstention on every Sunday of the running month to protest the proposed eighth national payscale and to press home their demand for a separate payscale for university teachers. 

Signatures of university teachers in support of the demand will also be collected.

However, examinations will remain out of purview of the protest programme, said a press release of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association (FBUTA) yesterday.

Terming the proposed payscale "disgraceful and discriminatory" for university teachers, Dhaka University Teachers' Association will start signature campaign at the historic Bat-tala of the university.

The signature campaign will continue till August 20. The signatures from teachers of universities under FBUTA will be submitted to the government through the secretary general of the organisation Dr ASM Maksud Kamal.

They will go for tougher movement, including continuous work abstention, if their demands are not met, said the release.