Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 16: A State level joint convention of workers associated with CITU, INTUC, AITUC, Insurance, banks, BSNL,under the banner of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), resolved to hold all India strike on September 2, 2015.
In the convention the leaders of trade unions, federations of all sectors and service establishments expressed deep concern over the anti-workers, anti-people and pro-corporate action of the present Governments at the Centre and the State in pursuance of policies of globalization and to empower the employer with a right to ‘hire and fire’ and stripping the workers and trade unions of all their rights and benefits by amending the existing labour laws.
State CITU president and MLA, M Y Tarigami, stated that frequent amendments to labour laws have so far armed the employers and said these amendments have deprived the working class which needs coordinated efforts and a united resistance to safeguard their own interests across the country especially in Jammu and Kashmir.
State INTUC president Shiv Kumar Sharma said most of the families of unorganized sector workers, agricultural workers or small and marginal peasants are the beneficiaries of Centrally sponsored schemes and slashing their budgetary allocations have directly hit these families the worst.
CITU general secretary Om Parkash, senior CITU leader Sham Parsad Kesar, NZIEA general secretary Pawan Kumar Gupta and others called upon all the workforce of the State to come on a common platform and intensify the struggle against the anti-workers policies of the Government. The convention unitedly resolved to appeal the working class and employees of the State to observe complete strike called by trade unions on September 2.
The convention also passed resolutions on implementation of labour laws, food security, price rise, Minimum Wages Act, roll back of new recruitment policy, rehabilitation of flood victims and redressal of burning issues confronting the farmers and fruit growers.
The representatives of various trade unions who participated in the convention included Thakur Raghuvir Singh, Ramesh Chand, N S Manhas, D R Sharma, Sunita Bhagat, Raj Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Sohan Lal, Banarsi Dass, Kailash Nayak, H D Bhomik, Ashok Kumar, Jia Lal Parihar etc.
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