PRESS STATEMENT
CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS DECIDES TO OBSERVE ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY ON 15TH MARCH 2018
The meeting of the Central Trade Unions held on 22nd February
2018 at INTUC Office New Delhi expressed indignation and strongly
condemned the Government of the day for their intensified attack on the
lives and livelihood of the people and seriously compromising the
national interest.
Attack on working class
centering around dismantling labour laws designed to completely
casualise employment conditions through various routes like amending
Contract Labour Act, introducing Fixed Term Employment etc has assumed
aggressive height. Further it is noted that the Government is out to
erase the public sector from the industrial map of the country. Specific
cases of attack on privatization of railways, opening coal mining to
private and foreign companies without any restriction whatsoever, mass
scale privatization as well as destruction of defence production network
through widespread outsourcing, thereby dismantling the almost half
of the ordinance factories are some of the examples of the gross
anti-people and anti-national actions of the Govt. Accumulation of huge
non-performing assets of the public sector banks arising out of
pilferage of bank-funds by deliberately defaulting private corporate
coupled with recent explosion of frauds with bank fund engineered by the
same corporate class is also a reflection of the anti-national act of
the Govt indulging and patronizing the same big-business class.
The Central Trade Unions
reiterated their utter condemnation against the Union Budget 2018-19
which is basically anti-worker and anti-people in character and
engineered a deception on the mass of the people through loud populist
slogans without actually making any resource allocation.
The Central Trade Unions denounced the Govt of India’s surreptitious move in postponing the 47th session of Indian Labour Conference, thereby reducing tripartism to a mockery.
CTUOs noted with
satisfaction the surging struggles by the working people in different
sectors throughout the country, both organised and unorganized.
The workers and
federations of coal and transport have been preparing for united
industrywide actions to be undertaken shortly. All the Federations of
Defence Production workers have jointly decided to go in for nationwide
strike on 15th March 2018. Many more sectoral actions are in the offing.
The CTUOs while
reiterating their resolve to intensify preparation for indefinite strike
in the days to come, calls upon all their constituents and working
people in general irrespective of affiliations to jointly observe
ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY ON 15TH MARCH 2018
· In solidarity with the striking Defence Production workers against anti-national privatization move
· Against the Anti-people Deceptive Union Budget 2018-19
The CTUOs will meet shortly after 15th March 2018 to decide their next course of united countrywide action.
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