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Journalists, media employees demand 9th Wage Board
Observer Online Desk
Published :Monday, 23 May, 2016,  Time : 8:07 PM  View Count : 3
Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP), a platform of journalists, workers and employees, on Monday threatened to go on a greater movement if their demand for the announcement of the 9th Wage Board for media people is not met by a month.

SSKOP leaders came up with the ultimatum from a rally held on the Jatiya Press Club premises.They said the mass media people have been subjected to discrimination although the salaries of government employees at different levels and members of the judiciary have seen a good hike.

President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul spoke at the rally as the chief guest.

BFUJ secretary general Omar Faruk, president of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Shaban Mahmud, its vice-president Atikur Rahman Chowdhury, former DUJ secretary general Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan and general secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) Raju Ahmed, among others, addressed the rally held with President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Newspaper Press Workers Alamgir Hossain in the chair.

Omar Faruk said if the government does not announce the 9th Wage Board for the journalists, employees and workers of print, electronic and online media within the next one month, a greater movement will be waged through visiting the units across the country.

Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul urged all the DUJ units to play a stronger role in realising the demand for the 9th Wage Board.

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