Responding to the call of AIDEF, 70% workers responded to strike in Ordnance Factories, Defence Research and Development Organisations and also in the establishments under Directorates of Army, Navy and Air Force. In Dehradun, Jabalpur, Pune, Assam and West Bengal area many establishments remained closed due to 100% participation of the workers in the strike. Striking workers in all these places staged demonstration throughout the day. INTUC members under INDWF joined strikes in many areas whereas the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal tried to disrupt the strike by outsider strike breakers in Ichapur, Cossipur and Kakinara. Members of BMS (BPMS) in Kanpur, Allahabad, Muradnagar in Uttar Pradesh did not join strike.
ALL INDIA STATE GOVT. EMPLOYEES’ FEDERATION:
Strike was total in the Govt. offices in Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Desperate Govt. of Hriyana embarked on the striking workers with lathi charge and arresting. Tamil Nadu Govt. also arrested thousands of striking workers. Though strike in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab was partial but in Karnataks majority of workers participated. In Rajasthan demonstrative programme was observed all over the state.
CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES’ AND WORKERS:
Strike action elicited total participation in the states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya. Participation to strike of 80% employees was found in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattishgarh and in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Orissa was partial. Employees of RMS division and a few other organisations in postal department in Delhi observed Strike.
BANK EMPLOYEES FEDERATION:
Overwhelming response was received from the bank employees all over the country causing a grinding halt of bank operation all over the country. Employees picketed before the gates of the banks, demonstrated there and conducted rally where the demands were described to the people.
ALL INDIA AUDIT & ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATION:
Employees in Allahabad (Accounts), Audit & Accounts units in Kolkata and Guwahati (accounts) observed total strike. Majority of employees in Kerala also participated to strike.
A good number of employees in Chennai (Accounts), Hyderabad and Mumbai joined strike. In Gwalior and Shimla the employees observed black day by holding lunch hour demonstration.
FEDERATION OF MEDICAL AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES’ ASSOCIATIONS OF INDIA:
Sales promotion employees participated in the strike in almost all states along with CITU and other organisations. FMRAI, members joined the rallies, picketing etc. along with other Trade Unions for making the strike successful. Strike action was visible in North Eastern States, Uttarakhand, Punjab along with other North Western states.
In Ahmednagar, Maharashtra Two of our leading functionaries were arrested for picketing in front of the managers’ of multinational company Abbott in the field when they were breaking the strike.
Source: www.citucentre.org.
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