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SHOW OF STRENGTH: Thousands of government employees take out a rally from the Ramlila Grounds to Jantar Mantar, near Parliament House, in New Delhi on Tuesday to press their demands, including the right to strike. - Photo: R.V. Moorthy
NEW DELHI, DEC. 7. Employees of Central and State Governments, whose rally from the Ram Lila grounds to Parliament was stopped at Jantar Mantar, staged a protest there demanding the restoration of the right to strike, banned by the Supreme Court recently. They were led by leaders of the All-India Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers, V.K. Vyas and Sukomal Sen. A "mass petition" addressed to the Lok Sahba Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, said it was unfortunate that the conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which recognise the right to strike, had not yet been ratified. The Supreme Court's observation that government employees had "no fundamental, statutory and moral right to strike" and the "unprecedented repression" on the striking State employees and teachers of Tamil Nadu earlier this year had come as a rude shock, it said. The right to strike was the only way to air grievances and the Supreme Court ruling had deprived them of their last resort, the petition said. The present phase of the country's economy, which has seen retrenchments and downsizing in government organisations, had given way to large-scale unemployment. The drastic cuts in the economic and social security provisions had added to their suffering. Citing the recognition given to the right to strike in the United Kingdom and France, the petition appealed to Parliament to discuss the matter urgently and express its views on ratification of ILO conventions. It demanded that the employees should have full trade union rights, including the right to strike. The present service and conduct rules were a legacy of the British rule, the employees said, and demanded that they be scrapped.
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