Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 2: Under the banner of Northern Zone Insurance Employees’ Association (NZIEA), the LIC employees staged protest demonstrations in front of LIC offices in J&K as a preparation of one day nationwide strike on January 8 against policies of NDA Government.
A handout stated that the protest call for January 8 is given by the National Open Mass Convention of Workers called jointly by 10 Central Trade Unions along with Independent Federations and Associations of Employees in Insurance, Banks, Defense Production, State Government and Central Government establishments etc.
At the protest demonstration outside Rail Head Complex LIC office in Jammu, Pawan Gupta, Divisional Secretary NZIEA Srinagar Division demanded early settlement of wage revision of LIC employees which is due from August 1, 2017.
He demanded scrapping of defined Contribution Pension Scheme which has ‘snatched the social security’ for the retired employees and placed the demand for pension updation and increase in the rate of family pension and expanding the defined benefit scheme of pension to all the employees.
The handout also stated that recruitment in Class 4 cadre in LIC is another demand of the Association.
Romesh Chand, Joint Secretary, Raj Kumar Sharma, Neelam Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, Raj Kumar and others also spoke on the occasion.
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