The political economy of the landscape of trade unions in bangladesh

The political economy of the landscape of trade unions in bangladesh The Political Economy of the Landscape of Trade Unions in Bangladesh: The Case of the RMG Sector Mirza M Hassan, Syeda Salina Aziz, Raeesa Rahemin, Insiya Khan, and Rafsanul Hoque July 2022 2 Contents List of Tables and Figures ........................................................................................................ [...] 1.1 Structure of the Report The paper is structured as follows: section one provides the introduction and methodology and section two presents an account of the trade unions and federations currently active in the RMG sector and the policies governing the TUs. [...] The Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) is the only labour institute in the country which supports and builds the capacity of the TUs. [...] The timeline of the registration, if compared with the trend line of policy changes and the surge in registration in 2014, reflects the increasing demand for registration in the backdrop of the Rana Plaza disaster. [...] The quality of the deliberation process in the committee depends on the proactiveness of the other members.