Gas station strike from today

Petrol pump and tank lorry owners and workers will go for an indefinite strike from today to press home their 13-point demand.
The demands include raising commission on the sale of petrol from present two percent to seven percent, enforcing the decision for setting up testing laboratories at the petrol depots, issuing arms licenses to the petrol pump owners and raising tank lorry fare.
Petrol Pump and Tank Lorry Owners-Workers Unity Council, a newly floated organisation comprising Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners' Association and Tank Lorry Workers' Federation, earlier on April 12 announced the work abstention programme at a press conference in the city.
The strike will start from Sunday as per the announcement as nobody from the government side yet contacted them to consider the demands,” Nazmul Haque, convenor of the council, told UNB yesterday.
Earlier, the unity council enforced a half-day strike on March 14 at the petrol pumps and depots across the country to realise the demands. They also gave an ultimatum to the government for implementing those by April 11.
Nazmul, also the president of Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners' Association, said incidents of robbery and looting have increased sharply at the petrol pumps in recent days due to non-issuance of arms licenses to the pump owners.
“These incidents are taking place frequently… Only in last few months, over 100 incidents of robbery and looting took place at different petrol pumps, including one belonging to me,” he said.
Now there are about 3,000 petrol pumps in Bangladesh, including 300 in Dhaka.