Petrol pump owners in the country have postponed their token strike planned for August 31 until September 13.
The leaders of Bangladesh Dealers, Distributors, Agents and Petrol Pump Owners Association made the announcement following a meeting with Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) on Monday, reports UNB.
According to the meeting decision, petrol pump owners have deferred the strike at the request of the BPC.
Nazmul Haque, president of the Petrol Pump Owners Association said, “We postponed our strike for 15 days. If our demands are not met by this time, we will observe strike from September 14.”
On August 24, the association leaders threatened to go on strike on August 31 if their 5-point demands, including raising their sales commissions, are not met within the next 7 days.
Nazmul claimed that in 2013, they used to get 4.75 per cent commission on the sales of octane and petrol while 3.22 per cent commission on diesel sales.
Now this commission has been reduced to about 1 per cent, he said adding now they want their commission to be raised to 7 per cent.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
