Campaign for the outstanding payment and Compensation to Unemployed garment Workers

Nearly 300.000 garment workers were unemployed due to problems of last year. Management did not provide any compensation to these unemployed workers. Even many of garment workers closed down their factories without paying of the workers outstanding wages and overtime payments. So these unemployed workers fell into an inhuman situation.

National Garments Workers Federation started a Campaign and Action for the realization of unemployed workers outstanding wages, overtime payments and Compensations. The federation organized a Sit - In Strike and some other programs to realize the demand and to aware the workers. The federation publicized posters and leaflets in favour of this. For these publications and programs a positive response were made among the unemployed workers. As a result, the workers started resistance. Some workers came to contact of NGWF, some of them came to the contact of other federations and some of them themselves started blocking the owner head offices, factory premises or owner houses. Through these type of activities unemployed workers recived their outstanding payment. Some workers recived their outstanding payment through the Arbitration committee. As a result of this campaign and action at least 10.000 jobless workers recived their outstanding wages and overtime payments.

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