Politicians and labour leaders on Wednesday said that labour leader Shah Atiul Islam worked for establishing rights of the workers.
His dreams will be fulfilled if a democratic labour law is enacted and rights of the workers are established, they told a commemoration meeting in Dhaka.
Bangladesh Trade Union Federation organised the commemoration meeting at its central office at Hatirpool to mark the fifth death anniversary of its former president Shah Atiul Islam.
Presiding over the event, federation president Taslima Akhter said that Atiul always fought for a democratic labour law to ensure the rights of the workers.
鈥楾he interim government is going to revise the labour law soon and we hope that it will be a democratic law by dropping the undemocratic sections of the law,鈥� Taslima said.
Ganosamhati Andolan leader, Bachuchu Bhuiyan, also a labour leader, called on the labour right bodies to be united for waging movements for establishing workers鈥� rights.
Federation leader Alif Dewan, garment labour leader Prabir Saha, labour leader Sohela Rumi and others spoke at the commemoration meeting.
Prior to the meeting, the labour leaders and activists placed wreaths on the portrait of Atiul Islam in the central office.
Atiul Islam died of Covid-19 in a city hospital on October 22, 2020.
