Labour rights group Jatiya Sramik Jote Bangladesh has named its 30-member central committee with Firoz Uddin Ahmed as president and Naimul Ahsan Jewel as general secretary. The council session was held at its central office on Friday.
The council session was preceded by an opening session at the Taher Auditorium where politicians and labour leaders said that labourers were suffering immensely for low wages they were being paid.
With price spiral and inflation, they find it difficult to run their families, the Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad coordinator, Wajed-ul Islam Khan, also general secretary of the Trade Union Centre, said at the opening of the council session.
Labour leader Shah Mohammad Abu Zafar demanded an increase in wages of workers and the introduction of food rationing and the arrest of price spiral.