Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 9: Scores of Contingent Paid Workers (CPWs), cooks and helpers under the banner of All J&K Contingent Paid and Cook Education Employees Union held a protest demonstration, here today.
A large number of CPWs, cooks and helpers from various parts of Jammu assembled today near Press Club Jammu and staged a demonstration while holding banners and placards, and raising slogans in support of their demands.
The protesting workers were demanding enhancement of wages as per Minimum Wages Act, regularization of services of those workers who have completed 10 years of their services and timely release of salaries in their accounts.
“We have been assigned very hard duty of cooking in Government schools against meager wages which are not even 10th part of our hard work and we have been performing our duties more than a decade on such pity wages,” they said, adding, they were not being given wages for the whole year.
They said that there is at least one cook working in every hamlet and the persons engaged as cooks are usually belonging to the poor families and many cooks are the sole earners of their families. They appealed the Lieutenant Governor’s administration to intervene into the matter so that they may get justice.
The protesting workers threatened that if their genuine demands are not fulfilled soon they will launch a strong agitation.
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