Labour news from Bangladesh is usually about the efforts of workers to organise or about major industrial disasters that kill scores of workers in the garment or shipbreaking sectors. The gas and oil exploration sector that operates mainly offshore is an under-reported sector. Hundreds of workers are employed by the giant Chevron Corporation and have been fighting for many years for regular contracts and against precarious work. Their attempts to organise and form their own union this year resulted in Chevron sacking all the elected leaders of this new union earlier this year.
Labour news from Bangladesh is usually about the efforts of workers to organise or about major industrial disasters that kill scores of workers in the garment or shipbreaking sectors. The gas and oil exploration sector that operates mainly offshore is an under-reported sector. Hundreds of workers are employed by the giant Chevron Corporation and have been fighting for many years for regular contracts and against precarious work. Their attempts to organise and form their own union this year resulted in Chevron sacking all the elected leaders of this new union earlier this year.
