Transport workers union has called a 48-hour countrywide strike from Sunday to press their eight demands, including amendment to the recently-enacted Road Transport Act 2018.
Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation (BRTWF) made the announcement on Saturday at a statement sent to the media.
The countrywide strike will begin at 6am on Sunday, said the statement by BRTWF President Waziuddin Khan and General Secretary Osman Ali.
It said that several provisions of the new law have left transport workers in doldrums.
The Federation, the umbrella organisation of country's transport workers, says that the provision stipulating road accidents as criminal offence and allowing a maximum punishment of death sentence consider deaths as murders has caused a lot of workers to switch industries.
The demands also include making all offences under the Act “bailable”, cancellation of the provision that allows a worker to be fined Tk 500,000 for involvement in a road accident, changing minimum educational qualification from class-VIII to class-V for getting driving licences, and stopping police harassment on roads.