President Hamid, PM Hasina greet workers on May Day
News Desk, bdnews24.com
Published: 01 May 2016 12:44 AM BdST Updated: 01 May 2016 12:44 AM BdST
President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have greeted the workers across the globe on May Day, the historic day epitomising workers’ struggle for their rights.
Bangladesh will observe the day along with other countries on Sunday. The day is a public holiday.
President Hamid in a message called for establishing good worker-owner relations, ensuring fair wages and safe and congenial workplace.
He emphasised enhancing skills of workers and observed that there is no alternative to manufacturing world-class products in the competitive world.

“Now the working class is getting the benefit of these measures,” he added.
On May 1, 1886, ten workers were killed in police firing near Hay Market in the US city of Chicago.
Those killed were workers campaigning for an eight-hour work shift instead of the prevalent 12 hours.
The authorities were finally forced to accept the demand, leading to the universal acceptance of the eight-hour shift.
An international working class rally on July 14, 1889 in Paris declared May 1 as the International Workers Solidarity Day as a tribute to the slain Chicago workers.

In her message, Prime Minister Hasina paid respect to the people who sacrificed their lives to establish fundamental rights of the working people in Chicago in 1886.
She said her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had struggled throughout his life for realising the rights of the deprived and working class of the country.
Hasina said the present government had reopened mills and factories closed during the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami tenure.

The prime minister also pointed out that her government ‘modernised’ the Bangladesh Labour Law, 2006 and formulated Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Law, 2013 for the welfare of the working people.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia wished the working class happiness, peace, progress and success.
-
‘Missing’ Hilaly found in Savar
-
KNF killed innocents in June: PCJSS
-
Motorcycles banned from highways during Eid
-
Lawyer defends ‘Tk 120m fees’ for Grameen Telecom cases
-
Plans for 400,000 tonnes of rice import approved
-
Bangladesh raises LPG prices
-
Motorcycles on Padma Bridge unlikely before Eid: official
-
2 children drown in Netrokona floodwaters
-
Biman Bangladesh jets collide again at Dhaka airport
-
Floods leave future of Sunamganj students reeling as teachers struggle for answers
-
Amin Hilaly, ‘missing’ real estate businessman named in NSU graft case, is found in Savar
-
A new insurgent group blamed PCJSS for a triple killing in June. PCJSS, in response, blames the new group
-
Bangladesh bans motorcycles from highways for a week during Eid-ul-Azha
-
Lawyer defends ‘Tk 120m fees’ taken for settlement of Grameen Telecom cases
Most Read
- Bangladesh is gearing up to open its first river tunnel by the end of 2022
- Bangladesh to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on Jul 10
- Drastic fall in passenger numbers forces owners to cut Dhaka-Barishal launch fares
- War crimes fugitive Aminul Haque took several trips to Pakistan, RAB says
- Daylong chaos as expressway tolling slows traffic
- Nigerian Islamic court orders death by stoning for men convicted of homosexuality
- RFL Electronics gets $23m in British loans to boost manufacturing
- Bangladesh’s exports climb to record $52bn in FY22
- Bangladesh unlikely to reopen Padma Bridge to motorcycles before Eid: official
- A suspect was let off after a mix-up over his name. Then he was arrested at his wedding