<i>Withdraw ban on trade unions</i>
Azizur Rahim Peu / Driknews
A large number of workers working in various industrial mills and factories face different kinds of maltreatment, discrimination and exploitation. For this very reason, the prevalence of trade unions as collective bargaining agents on behalf of labourers and workers to protect their rights, to create pressure through the government on the management of the industries to improve the working condition and to press home their demand for higher wages to cope with the inflation is reasonable, desirable and democratic. To defend the poor people from discrimination and exploitation, the trade unions have no alternative. But, the government's enforced Emergency Power Rule has restricted the political and civil rights of the people, including trade union activities. The government is contemplating partial withdrawal of ban on trade unions after about 18 months of imposition. While the owners are enjoying full freedom and exercising their rights including holding elections to their associations and firing the labourers, the trade unions are experiencing a repressive ban. We urge the government to completely withdraw the ban on trade unions to facilitate their polls and to let them combat legally the denial of their due rights by the management of the industries.
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