24-hour strike at newspaper offices Aug 1

Sangbadik Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP) stages a demonstration in the city yesterday demanding formation of the sixth wage board for the newspapermen and full implementation of the Fifth Wage Board Award in different newspapers and news agencies. PHOTO: STAR

Journalists-Workers-Employees' Unity Council has called for a 24-hour newspaper strike on August 1 demanding implementation of their seven-point demands including formation of the sixth wage board and implementation of the fifth wage board award.

Journalists and newspaper workers and employees will also bring out procession and hold rallies on September 25 to press home their demands.

The programme was announced at a rally of the council at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday with Co-Convenor Gias Kamal Chowdhury in the chair. Co-Convenor Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury announced the programme.

Speakers at the rally condemned the government's dilly-dally over the implementation of the sixth wage board despite the cabinet decision.

They warned the newspaper owners against any conspiracy regarding the formation of the wage board.

The meeting was addressed among others by Co-Convenor of the council Fazle Imam, Member Secretary Ruhul Amin Gazi, Joint Member Secretary Monzoorul Ahsan Bulbul, member Abul Hashem, Khairul Islam, Altaf Mahmood, Elahi Newaj Khan Saju, Shah Alamgir and Sardar Farid. Joint Member Secretary Md Motiur Rahman Talukder conducted the meeting.

Earlier, journalists and workers brought out a procession that paraded different roads in the city.

An extended meeting of the unit chiefs and deputy unit chiefs of different newspaper units, presidents and general secretaries of press union and employees' unions will be held on July 30 to make the August 1 strike a success.