Meat traders decide to stay aside from strike
Meat traders today decided to stay aside from strike during Ramadan as the authorities concerned assured them of meeting their demands.
“Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed assured us of meeting our demands by the next four or five days and thus we will not go for work abstention,” said Rabiul Alam, secretary general of Dhaka Metropolitan Meat Traders’ Association, reports the Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
The minister gave the assurance during a meeting with meat traders at his ministry office in Dhaka.
“We have been told that our problems will be solved within a span of four or five days after holding talks with mayors of Dhaka north and south city corporations,” Alam said.
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Earlier in the day, the meat traders threatened that they would go for work abstention from the first day of Ramadan if the government does not meet their demands including construction of a permanent cattle market in Dhaka South City Corporation.
The meat traders alleged that the sale of meat has fallen as people are avoiding beef and mutton due to high price, Rabiul said earlier in the day.
As a result, half of the meat shops have already been shut down, the BMMA secretary general said.
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At the press conference in the morning, Robiul Alam pointed out many problems they were facing and also placed their demands that also include building a number of top quality slaughterhouses, stopping extortion and reducing tax.
Earlier, the traders observed a six-day countrywide strike from February 13 to 18 to press home the four demands.
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