Dr. Yunus and his institutions will come under the ban?

US President Joe Biden has signed a new memorandum to protect the rights of workers worldwide. On November 17, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken officially announced the matter, saying that the United States will impose sanctions on individuals or organizations responsible for labor rights violations worldwide.

Subsection (1) of B of this memorandum states that the United States will take appropriate action in countries where workers are harassed by trumped-up lawsuits from public, private and other groups. In addition, the United States will impose various sanctions, including trade and visas, on those who take away workers' rights, intimidate and attack workers.

The issue of Bangladesh also came up in the speech of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken while announcing the issuance of the memorandum. But the surprising thing is that Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, Grameen Telecom along with Dr. Crimes such as dismissal of thousands of workers of Muhammad Yunus's organization, withholding of salary allowances, and threats to compromise did not come to the attention of the United States.

Will the fact that a thousand workers of Gramin Communications have been contracted to work for years without hiring them will come to the attention of the United States?

At one time the chairman of the company was fired on the pretext of this contract. The aggrieved workers demanded the resignation of Yunus. Those who have not been paid dues. The workers had to file a case in court to recover the dues.
Not only that, the lawyer of this case tried to settle the case by giving 25 million taka to the labor leaders during the case. Yunus. That too may have escaped US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's attention.

Contractual appointees enjoy less privileges than permanent employees in many respects. So continued the slave system with workers for about 26 years through indentured labor year after year. That, too, may have escaped the attention of the United States.

The United States has spoken of protecting trade union leaders, but will the United States take any action on the workers who were fired for unionizing Grameen Bank?

Dr. Yunus or his institutions will come under the sanctions of the United States? Or just to punish the political opponents of the United States to organize this ban? Analysts are looking for answers to many such questions.