Garbage lifting badly hit in city as strike continues

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 25

Garbage lifting in the city was badly hit as the strike by members of the MC Safai Karamchari Union entered its second day today.

Union members did not lift garbage from 550 bins across the city.

Even today, they stopped garbage lifting vehicles from entering the garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra.

Union president Krishan Kumar Chadha claimed that the association of door-to-door garbage collectors would also join them and from tomorrow onwards, they would not be collecting refuse.

The key demands of the union are regularisation of the services of 134 sanitation workers, employment to family members of the deceased workers on compassionate grounds and promotion of literate sanitation workers to the posts of clerk.