Staff Reporter:
Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus said that the talent and hard work of workers and owners remain behind the progress of each sector in the country.
“The talent and toil of workers and owners remain behind the progress of each sector, including garment, agriculture, industry, construction, transportation and technology,” he said in a message yesterday on the eve of the ‘Great May Day-2025’ and the ‘National Occupational Health and Safety Day’.
To rebuild this country, all must strengthen the atmosphere of unity, mutual respect and trust, said Dr Yunus.
If the trend of unity and cooperation continue, then building a new discrimination-free Bangladesh, dreamt by students-workers- people in July-August movement, will not remain as a mere dream but a reality, he said.
“This year, along with the Great May Day, we are simultaneously observing the ‘National Occupational Health and Safety Day-2025’,” the CA said.
“We are committed to ensuring fair recognition and social protection of workers,” he added.
Ensuring a safe and healthy working environment is not only the right of workers, but it is also one of the conditions for the development of industry and the economy, Dr Yunus said.
At the same time, the improvement of the living standards and welfare of workers is reflected in the entire industrial sector and the country’s economy, he said.
The Chief Adviser believed that the country’s progress will be further accelerated with the partnership of workers and employers in the development journey of Bangladesh.
He wished the overall success of all the programs undertaken on the occasion of the ‘Great May Day-2025’ and the ‘National Occupational Health and Safety Day-2025’.
The historic May Day will be observed today in the country and elsewhere across the world in a befitting manner.
The theme of the day for this is “Workers and owners united; Lets rebuild this country anew.”
The day is being observed across the globe since 1886 commemorating the supreme sacrifices of the workers at Hay Market, Chicago, in the USA for eight-hour working day and upholding the rights of the working people.
To press home their demands, working people had to sacrifice their valuable lives in tragic bomb attacks and police atrocities on May 1, 1886 and the following days.
The day is celebrated with due dignity in Bangladesh and all over the world as a day to realize the rights of working people.
