Sanitation workers seek timely salary

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, June 16

Demanding fulfillment of their long-pending demands, sanitation workers staged a protest in front of the MC office here on Saturday.

The protest was led by Vinod Mali, president of the Sanitation Workers’ Union. The workers raised slogans against the state government.

Mali said they had been protesting for the past many years to meet their demands. He said they had been demanding employees’ salaries on time and end of the contract system. He said but till date, their demands were not fulfilled.

Mali said officials and leaders always give them assurances, but no one works for their betterment.

“Due to anti-employee polices of the government, we are forced to protest against the state government. Our other demands are the implementation of pension scheme, regularisation of temporary employees’ services, recruitment of new employees, scrapping of new pension scheme, special allowance of Rs 1,000 per month to sanitation workers and employees PF along with interest,” he said.

On a call by the Municipal Employee Action Committee, Punjab, the sanitation workers also announced to observe a strike on July 17 and 18 across the state. Sanitation workers said during the strike, no workers across the state would work.

They said today to wake up the government from the slumber, a district-level “matki fod” protest was organised in the state.