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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Struggle panel to take up Statewide campaign

Staff Reporter

Convener Sudhakar urges Centre to pass legislation on right to strike

HYDERABAD: The Struggle Committee for Right to Strike of both Central and State employees will take up a Statewide campaign to prepare members for a nationwide strike, if necessary, for achieving the demand.

D. Sudhakar, convener, and other leaders told presspersons here on Tuesday that the Centre should pass legislation on the right to strike. The decision to undertake the campaign was taken here on May 5 at a get-together of all employees' organisations and workers of the State.

It was resolved to organise a State-level convention here on May 26 on several issues, including the new pension scheme. The leaders said several important and common issues identified by the committee would be discussed, including an enactment on the right to strike or by ratification of the relevant ILO convention.

Mr. Sudhakar said the committee wanted withdrawal of the privatised pension scheme by the Centre and States where it had been introduced, calling a halt to privatisation, downsizing, retrenchment and outsourcing of Government functions, to fill lakhs of vacant posts in both Central and State Governments.

Main demands

The leaders demanded raising of the GPF interest from 8 to 12 per cent, as it was earlier, declare Hyderabad as A-1 City and consider the right to work a fundamental right.

V. Nageswara Rao, general secretary, Central Government Employees' Federation, Ramakrishna Charyulu of the SCR Mazdoor union, Subba Reddy of State Teachers' Union and Clement of the All-India Insurance Employees' Association, spoke. Some of them criticised the State Government for removing from service 487 employees.

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