Why is the wage board for shipbreaking workers not implemented yet?

Workers’ safety must be a priority

We are shocked by the news that at least six workers involved in shipbreaking and recycling were killed in the first three months of 2018, the latest as recently as Wednesday morning.

We are shocked at the recent deaths of two workers at the shipbreaking yards in Sitakunda.

At least 15 workers were killed and more than a hundred injured in accidents at different shipbreaking yards in Chittagong this year

In this paper we have written many times about the hazardous working conditions at shipbreaking yards.

Frequent accidents have been claming lives or seriously injuring many workers in Chittagong shipbreaking yards over the years, largely