Trade unions hold protest in Amritsar against Union Govt’s economic policies

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 3

Members of different trade unions held a protest against the Centre’s economic policies here on Friday.

Holding banners in their hands, the protesters gathered at the Company Garden and raised slogans against the Union Government. They blamed the government for ignoring working class and labourers during the lockdown period.

Vijay Mishra, president, CITU, Punjab, demanded rollback of the amendments made in the labour laws. He sought full salaries for labourers during the lockdown period. Amarjit Singh Asal, secretary, AITUC, Punjab, said the government must fix monthly salary of all categories of labourers at Rs 21,000. For MGNREGA workers, he demanded a wage of Rs 600 per day for 200 working days. Similarly, he demanded the extension of scheme to urban areas.

The speakers were almost unanimous on the issue that the government must end privatisation. They said the registered domestic helps must be extended the benefits provided to construction workers. They demanded deposit of five per cent property tax in the welfare board of domestic helps. The protesters demanded regularisation of the services of contractual workers.

Members of the AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha, INTUC, CTU, brick kiln workers, palledars, soap and detergent, transport workers, besides employees of the state and the Union Government participated in the protest.

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The workers of the Centre of Trade Unions (CTU), AITUC and the other employee organisations held a rally here and marched to the District Administrative Complex (DAC) and submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Kulwant Singh.

Pritihapal Singh Magimegha, Pargat Singh Jamarai, Gurpreet Singh Gandiwind were among others leaders who addressed the farmers, labourers, activists of the trade unions. They condemned the increasing of working hours of the worker from eight to 12 hours and withdrawing the scrapping of the welfare schemes made for the welfare of the weaker sections, including farmers, and labourers etc. The leaders demanded for increasing the monthly contribution of the ASHA, anganwari and Mid-day-meal workers and their other demands.

The workers of the Punjab Roadways and Contract Workers Union organised a gate rally in front of the roadways workshop. Satnam Singh, depot president, while addressing the works, stressed for the regularisation of their services.

The workers of the Punjab Subordinate Services Federation, safai sewaks and others, too, organised the gathering.

The activists of the CITU, under the leadership of Dalwinder Singh Pannun, at a rally burnt the effigy of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

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