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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific 14 May 2021 India: Striking health workers in Punjab sacked Around 1,400 striking National Health Mission (NHM) workers, including staff nurses, medical officers, homeopathy Ayurveda doctors and ministerial staff, were sacked by the Punjab government on May 10 for refusing to end their week-long strike. About 3,000 NHM workers walked out on strike to demand higher wages and permanent jobs. The sacked workers, who were fired through the draconian Disaster Management Act, were from seven districts in Punjab. Last September over 30,000 NHM contract workers held a national stoppage over the same demands. Although many have had ten years’ service, they are paid meagre salaries and are denied entitlements available to regular government employees. ....
Bangladesh power project workers face witch-hunt after police killings A Bangladeshi high court last week ordered the S. Alam group, a major Bangladeshi conglomerate, to pay compensation to the family of workers killed when police brutally attacked a protest at the SS Power Plant construction site at Banshkhali in Chittagong. The Chinese-funded project is being built by S. Alam. Bangladesh police (Nahid Sultan/Wikimedia Commons) On April 17, local police opened fire on 2,000 protesting workers at the site, killing five young workers on the spot and injuring at least 21 others, some critically. Another worker succumbed to his injuries on the same day and one more four days later. Human rights groups have said about 50 people were injured in the police attack. ....
200 RMG factories yet to pay salary, bonus Union leaders say Workers of Binni Garments blocked off the road in front of the Kamalapur container terminal in the capital for several hours since 9:00am yesterday demanding payment of their wages and festival bonuses. Photo: Amran Hossain Some 200 garment factories could not pay workers salaries and festival bonuses as of yesterday although the Eid-ul-Fitr festival is just knocking at the door, said union leaders. Many factories are trying to clear the payments on the last working day before Eid, Md Towhidur Rahman, president of Bangladesh Apparel Workers Federation, told The Daily Star over the phone. ....