Govt univ teachers start striking countrywide
Teachers from all 37 public universities in the country abstained from work for three hours yesterday protesting the proposed eighth national payscale and demanding a separate one for them.
They also demanded that the government equalise the salaries, benefits and status between university teachers and bureaucrats.
Equality should be brought between professors in selection grade and senior secretaries, and between professors and secretaries, they said, adding that the university teachers have to be included in the warrant of precedence.
They also collected signatures of their colleagues in support of their demands and it, what they said, will continue till August 20. However, examinations remained out of purview of the protest programme.
Earlier on August 11, the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association (FBUTA) announced observing a three-hour work abstention on every Sunday during the current month.
Our DU correspondent reports, the signature campaign starting at 10:00am at Dhaka University Club was endorsed by more than 700 supporters in three hours.
“We will submit the signatures to the ministry concerned to press our demands,” said FBUTA secretary general Maksud Kamal.
Our JU correspondent reports, Jahangirnagar University Teachers Association staged a sit-in before the Arts and Humanities building.
The teachers threatened to go on indefinite strike if their demands are not met.
Our CU correspondent reports, Chittagong University Teachers Association observed work abstention from 10:00am to 1:00pm and gathered at Bangabandhu Chattar on the campus.
The demonstrators termed the proposed payscale “discriminatory and unequal”.
Our Rangpur correspondent reports, during work abstention, Begum Rokeya University Teachers Association demanded cancellation of the proposed national payscale terming it “disgraceful and discriminatory”.
Our Moulvibazar correspondent adds, Sylhet Agricultural University Teachers Association sought immediate revision of the proposed payscale.
Teachers are provided the highest payment in different countries even in neighbouring India but it is absent in Bangladesh, said Prof Mritunjoy Kundu, general secretary of the association.
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