Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 12: On the resolve of Central Trade Unions to continue their protest action against the anti-labour policies of Central and State Governments, all trade unions affiliated with State CITU held a large rally in the winter capital city.
MLA Kulgam and top CITU leader, Mohd Yousuf Tarigami was leading the protest. It was started from Press Club and passed through Jewal Chowk, Gumat, Bus Stand and culminated at Indira Chowk, A large number of workers from all over the State from organized and unorganized sector assembled at Press Club Jammu holding red flags, banners and placards in their hands and shouted slogans. They were demanding Rs 18000 minimum wages, pension for all, equal pay for equal work and regualrisation, recognition of scheme workers (ASHA, Anganwadi Mid-Day- Meal) as worker, minimum wage, social security and increase in remuneration, check price rise, to resolve unemployment, against labour law amendments, against privatization of PSUs, FDI in Defence, Rail and Insurance and against communal and divisive policies, rehabilitation of Rehdi-Fadi workers of Jammu city etc.
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While addressing the protesting workers Tarigami, president, J&K CITU said that the Central Government has been desperately moving ahead for mega strategic sale of huge national assets of PSUs, anti-working class labour reforms, unrelenting rise of prices of all essential commodities, wide-spread contractualization, dismantling existing social security system like EPF and ESI, cutting in social security coverage, ignoring pension to scheme workers such as ASHAs, Anganwari, MDM, unorganized sector workers, non-implementation of labour laws as well as weakening of law enforcement of machinery and non-implementation of minimum wages of Rs.18000 per month. The neo-liberal economic policies being implemented by the Government have broken the back of working class and marginalized sections of the society as the same has resulted into price escalation, cut in employment opportunities and social security measures, non adherence to basic labour laws etc., he exhorted.
Tarigami said that all these have created miserable impact on the lives and livelihood of the working class both in the urban and rural areas across the country. He called upon the workers to fight unitely against these policies of the Government.
CITU leaders Om Prakash and Sham Kesar also addressed the gathering. They demanded to rehabilitate Rehdi- Fadi workers of Jammu.
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