Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr. Shafiqur Rahman. File Photo

DHAKA, May 1, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has said country’s industries will not progress if workers do not get their fair rights and if workers do not work, industries will lag behind.

"The relationship between the employers and workers will be as the sign of brotherhood, not of enmity . . . if the workers survive, the country’s industries will survive, and if the industries survive, the workers will survive ultimately," he told a gathering at Paltan here today.

Jamaat Amir was speaking as the chief guest at a ‘mammoth workers' rally’ organized by the Bangladesh Workers' Welfare Federation on the occasion of 'International Workers' Day' at Paltan intersection here this morning.

Federation's central president and former MP ANM Shamsul Islam presided over the programme while General Secretary Advocate Atiqur Rahman conducted the meeting.

Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Amir and former central president of the Federation and ex-MP Prof Mujibur Rahman, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General and former MP Professor Mia Golam Parwar, Assistant Secretary General Maulana Rafiqul Islam Khan and former MP Dr. AHM Hamidur Rahman Azad, Dhaka City South Jamaat Amir Nurul Islam Bulbul, Federation Central Senior Vice-President Professor Harunur Rashid Khan and Dhaka North City Nayeb-e-Amir Engr Golam Mustafa were present as special guests.

“Currently a group of people are taking advantage by creating artificial crises and problems between the employers and the workers,” Dr. Shafiqur said.

Noting that the workers are often destroying their workplaces by falling into the conspirators’ trap, he said, “We want an end to all kinds of conflicts between workers and employers.”

The Jamaat Amir said workers and working people are oppressed in various ways and deprived of getting their fair rights. Besides, the workers are not properly valued in mills, factories and industries, he added.

“If we truly want to build a sustainable Bangladesh, a peaceful Bangladesh, then everyone will have to build the society with mutual respect and love,” he added.

Dr. Shafiqur Rahman hoped to see a society of mutual love and respect between employers and workers, which is the main task of the Workers Welfare Federation.