Nine Central Trade Unions including CITU, BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, AIUTUC, TUCC, AICCTU and UTUC staged a massive Dharna before Parliament on 16th December 2009 as a protest against Govt’s inaction to control price rise, check labour law violations, non-creation of National Fund for Unorganised Workers Social Security, loss of jobs in the name of recession and disinvestment of profit making public sector undertakings. Around 10,000 workers sat on Dharna.
Similar joint Dharnas were held all over the country in th state capitals and industrial centres.
Comrade M.K. Pandhe, President, CITU, R.V.Subba Rao of BMS, M.Raghaviah of INTUC, Gurudas Dasgupta of AITUC, Umraomal Purohit of HMS, R.K. Sharma of AIUTUC, S.P.Tiwari from TUCC, Swapan Mukherjee from AICCTU and Aboni Roy from UTUC addressed the gathering.
Comrade Pandhe and others expressed their deep resentment over the callous and indifferent attitude of the Govt. in not taking any step to solve the five demands.
Central Trade Unions decided to further intensify the struggle and declared a programme of SATYAGRAHA/JAIL BHARO on 17th February, 2010 all over the country. Over ten lakh workers will stage Satyagraha or court arrest on that day demanding that:-
o Price rise of essential commodities is contained through appropriate corrective and universal distributive measures and containing speculation in commodity market.
o Concrete proactive measures are taken for employment protection in the recession stricken sectors along with the stimulus package being offered to the concerned entrepreneurs.
o Strict enforcement of all basic labour laws without any exception or exemption and stringent punitive measures for violation of labour laws.
o Steps are taken for removal of all restrictive provisions based on poverty line in respect of eligibility for coverage of the schemes under the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act 2008 and creation of National Fund for Unorganised Sector to provide for a National Floor Level Social Security to all unorganised sector workers including the contract/casual workers in line with the recommendation of National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised Sector and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.
o Disinvestment of shares of Central Public Sector Enterprises is not resorted to and instead their growing reserve and surplus is used for expansion and modernisation purposes and also for revival of sick Public Sector Undertakings.
Source: citucentre.org
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