Dhaka, March 16 -- Labour rights body Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad, or SKOP, has warned authorities that it will launch a non-stop protest campaign if unpaid salaries and allowances of labourers remain unpaid by the 20th of Ramadan.

On Sunday, SKOP's Joint Convenor Chowdhury Ashiqul Alam said that SKOP would stand by the working-class people if they resorted to agitation over not being paid.

"All we've to say is that promises must be fulfilled," he said while announcing the programme in front of the National Press Club.

Rajekuzzaman Ratan, president of the Samajtantrik Sramik Front, or SSF, said: "Bangladesh runs on the hard work of the labourers, they spin the wheel of economy but the wheels of their lives don't turn."

Ratan poin...