LIC employees on two day strike

LIC employees during a protest demonstration at Jammu on Monday.
LIC employees during a protest demonstration at Jammu on Monday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 7: LIC employees here today staged protest demonstrations in front of all the offices of J&K in preparation of two days’ nationwide strike on Jan 8 and 9 against the alleged anti-worker and anti-people policies of the NDA Government.
The protesters demanded reversal of alleged anti-worker policies of the central Government.
A protest rally was organised outside LIC office at Rail Head Complex here where Pawan Gupta, Divisional Secretary NZIEA Srinagar Division appealed the insurance employees to participate in the protest.
“Working class of the country has been demanding for a fairly long period for concrete measures for arresting rising prices of essential commodities, creation of decent and new jobs, minimum wage of Rs.18000 per month and minimum pension of Rs. 6000 per month, stoppage of sale of PSU shares, privatization of PSU through PPP and outsourcing, stopping of contractual and casual jobs, waiver of farm loans, remunerative prices to farm products, scrapping of National Pension Scheme, expanding the defined benefit scheme of pension to all the employees, stopping of amendments to labour laws and strict implementation of existing labour laws, universal social security coverage and pension to all etc,” Gupta said while addressing protesters.
Romesh Chand, Joint Secretary, Neelam Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Rajesh Kumar and others were also present in the protest.

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