Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: J&K Co-ordination Committee of Trade Unions (JKCCTU) held protests today at dozens of places throughout Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh UTs including district and Tehsil headquarters to convey their anger and anguish over the Government of India’s recent anti working class measures in the name of fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The protestors demanded revocation the recent draconian decisions like freezing of DA to Government employees and pensioners, amendment in labour laws, extension of working hours, freezing of permanent nature of jobs, retrenchments in Government departments and PSUs etc.
Leaders and activists of JKCCTU and affiliated departmental unions including large number of employees in their respective areas highlighted slogans against the anti employees measures of Central, State Governments and J&K (UT) administration and while maintaining social distances and keeping COVID protocol in mind with placards in their hands they demanded immediate redressal of their grievances.
The protestors were demanding withdrawal of the recent decision of freezing DA and other allowances of Government employees and pensioners, regularizing the services of all temporary workers, daily wagers like casual, contract, Anganwadi and Asha workers etc.
ensuring minimum wage not less than Rs 18000/pm. and release all pending wages of temporary workers, withdrawing the draconian decisions of amendments in labour laws and extension of working hours beyond 8 hour a day.
They also demanded implement SRO 59 in works departments like PDD, PHE, R&B etc and settlement of all pending pension cases immediately, providing skill wages to all IT diploma holders of PHE, PDD, and other departments till regularization, withdrawing of obnoxious electricity bill 2020 and recent decision to privatize the distribution system of UTs including J&K power sector, ensuring of full democratic and trade union rights and 4G internet in Jammu and Kashmir, providing the safety measure to all those who are fighting the pandemic as front line workers and all those employees maintaining essential supplies and ensuring services to the common people and fill up all existing class vacancies by regularizing the services of casual, contract and other temporary workers like PDD under SRO 381.
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