DHAKA: Employees of country’s national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines will seize the office of Managing Director on June 30 to press home their six-point demands.
Biman Shramik League President Mashiur Rahman announced the programme at airlines’ headquarters in Balaka Bhaban in the city on Wednesday.
Their demands include introducing organogram for the organization and uniform allowance, cent percent medical allowance, making the job permanent for casuals, increasing food allowance and providing facilities to Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC) employees as equal as the employees of the national carrier.
They also demanded dearness allowance from government declared date.
In January in 2013, Biman employees staged strong movement demanding the introduction of uniform allowance and increasing food allowance. At one stage, they demanded stepping down of Biman chairman Jamal Uddin.
The then civil aviation minister Faruk Khan agreed to meet the demands.
Later, the demands were not passed in the meeting of Biman’s board of directors. Biman sources said that some of directors agreed to meet the demand but its chairmen opposed.
BDST: 1555 HRS, JUN 25, 2014
