BGMEA President Faruque Hassan had an impromptu meeting with Alke Boessiger, Deputy General Secretary of UNI Global Union in Geneva on February 25.

BGMEA Vice President Miran Ali and Directors Asif Ashraf, Tanvir Ahmed and Abdullah Hil Rakib were also present on the occasion. 

They had discussions on different issues pertaining to the RMG industry of Bangladesh particularly workplace safety, workers’ rights and welfare.

During the meeting both BGMEA and UNI Global Union expressed their intent to work together to carry forward the achievements made by the garment industry of Bangladesh in workplace safety and labours’ rights through unprecedented collaboration of the global brands and retailers, manufacturers, government, ILO, development partners, and local and global unions.