Jalandhar: Safai karamcharis to go on strike from today, want demands met

Safai karamchari unions of the Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar, held a meeting today at the office of the Safai Mazdoor Federation, Punjab. In this meeting, the unions unanimously decided to go on strike starting tomorrow. Notably, it is for the second time in a month that the unions have decided to strike work.

Presiding over the meeting, Sunny Sahota, general secretary of Safai Mazdoor Federation, Punjab, stated that the Municipal Commissioner and Mayor Vineet Dhir had earlier asked to end the strike on May 16, after agreeing to the urgent demands of the unions. “However, the accepted demands have not yet been acted upon by the Municipal Corporation officials. Therefore, it has now been unanimously decided by all the unions that the strike will begin tomorrow and will continue until all demands are fulfilled,” they said.

The demand includes that JCB operators who have been working for 15-20 years in various departments of the Municipal Corporation’s workshop should be made permanent employees; sanitation workers, sewadars and sewer men who have been working as drivers for 15-20 years, should be promoted and made permanent drivers as per the seniority list; and all vacant posts of sanitation workers, sewer men, gardeners, beldars, watchmen etc should be filled up immediately.