Staff Correspondent . Khulna

The workers of Khulna Hardboard Mill at Khalishpur industrial belt have given ultimatum to the authorities for going to an indefinite strike if their 7-point demands are not met by April 30.

The demands are: making jobs of all workers permanent, introducing the government declared wage-scale for labourers, two yearly festival bonuses, providing residences at low rent in the mill colony, running a canteen at the mill premises, establishing a medical centre at the mill and providing free medicines for treatment of the workers.

Leaders of the mill workers gave the ultimatum after a meeting with the mill administration on Thursday morning. They alleged that during reopening of the mill in May, 2005 all 350 workers of the industrial unit were employed as temporary workers giving assurance that they service would be made permanent within a short time.

After two and a half years of joining, none of their jobs were made permanent and no residences were allocated for them at the mill colony. They were passing inhuman life for having no residence.

They also alleged that all the state-owned mill workers get two festival bonuses per year but they get only one bonus. The workers will bear black badges from March 15, observe sit-in demonstration in front of administrative office on March 23, go for two-hour work stoppage daily from March 24 to March 29 and enforce an indefinite strike from March 30 to realise their demands.

The Khulna Hardboard Mill, an enterprise of the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation, was established on 1966 on 9 acres of land..

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