Leaders of the Garment Workers’ Trade Union Centre on Monday demanded that date and place for payment of wage and festival allowances of the Swan workers should be announced at the meeting of the ministry of labour’s high power committee scheduled on Tuesday. The 1,300 workers of the Swan Garments passed 16th day of their continuous sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club in the city. Sadequr Rahman Shamim, the executive president of the GWTUC, who chaired the sit-in programme said that the workers of Swan were deprived of three months wage and festival allowances as the owners closed the factories unlawfully. He called on the government to take steps to announce the date and place of paying the wage of the workers from the high power committee’s meeting scheduled for second day on Tuesday. The general secretary of the organisation Kazi Ruhul Amin, joint general secretary Joly Talukder, central leaders Manzur Moin and others spoke at the rally. The rally was followed by a protest procession that paraded different city roads.
