Bangladesh Sramik Kalyan Federation is a national trade union affiliated with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.^[1][2] A N M Shamsul Islam, acting amir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and member of parliament, is the president of the federation.^[3]

Qurban Ali was the first president of the Federation, established on 23 May 1968.^[4][1] The organization is affiliated with the Bangladesh Rickshaw Sramik Kalyan Federation.^[5]

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami revived the organization in the 70s following the removal of the ban on the party by President Ziaur Rahman after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.^[1]

In May 2004, the federation's workers engaged in violent clashes with supporters of the Motor Sramik Union office, which is affiliated with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in Jaldhaka.^[6]

The federation reportedly evicted employees of Bangladesh Railway's West Zone for not supporting the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-backed organization in November 2007.^[7] Additionally, a leader of the federation was detained by locals in Satkhira for alleged "unsocial activity".^[8] In April 2008, locals in Fatullah accused the federation of instigating violent protests by workers in readymade garment factories.^[9]

In June 2010, the Khulna City unit of the federation criticized the Awami League government for the closure of factories in the Khulna-Jessore industrial belt.^[10] In December 2010, 11 Jamaat-e-Islami and federation men were detained while trying to organize a protest.^[11] In October 2010, police filed charges against activists of the federation and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, including former member of parliament Mujibur Rahman, for possessing bomb-making materials and anti-state pamphlets.^[12]

The 2010s saw a number of Federation leaders detained along with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders.^{[13][14][15][16]} In April 2014, police detained a leader of the federation and counsellor of 8th ward of Bogra Arshadul Bari Arshad who had 21 cases against him.^[17] In September 2015, police detained 11 Jamaat-e-Islami including Mia Golam Parwar and Prof Mujibur Rahman from a flat owned by the president of the federation Harunur Rashid.^[18] President of the Nachole upazila unit of the Federation was detained in November 2015.^[19] In April 2018, Police detained SM Sanaullah, Gazipur city Jamaat-e-Islami ameer, from a meeting of the Federation.^[20]

The federation criticized the closure of jute mills in Khulna and called on the government to provide financial support to 15,000 affected workers in 2020.^[21] Professor Mia Golam Parwar served as the federation's president from 2016 to 2020.^[4]

The Federation president Yeasin Ali Sarkar was detained along with other leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in October 2023.^[22]

Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime, federation vice-president Mohammad Golam Rabbani expressed support for the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.^[23][24] He also condemned the attack on the Bangladeshi Deputy High Commission in Tripura, India.^[23]