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KOCHI: Trade union leaders have urged the people and traders to cooperate with the joint trade union sponsoring committee's call for a strike on July 5 and make it a success. In a statement on Sunday, P.K. Gurudasan, CITU State general secretary, C. Divakaran, AITUC State general secretary, and other trade union leaders said the call for strike had been given in protest against the anti-labour and anti-people policies of the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government. In fact, the strike would be a joint protest against such policies. The 24-hour strike would begin on midnight of July 4. The committee had organised zonal marches and meetings as part of the strike campaign from June 23 to 27. Joint conventions of trade unions working in the coir, cashew, fisheries and plantation sectors and Kerala Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and Kerala Electricity Board (KSEB) had been held for the propagation of the strike plan. They alleged that more than 20,000 employees had been retrenched from various public sector units during the last four years. Coir, khadi, handicrafts, tapping, fisheries and private motor sectors and small-scale units had suffered due to the crass neglect shown by the Government. Besides, the policy adopted by the Government in the cooperative sector would completely destroy the economy of the State. The Government's policy would shatter the future prospects of the KSRTC and KSEB. They said the Government had failed to formulate an economic and social policy that would provide support to the majority of the people who were becoming poor by day. They said that the borrowings of the State had gone up from Rs.23,000 crores to Rs.45,000 crores. The UPA Government at the Centre too was pursuing an economic policy that would weaken the country. The Centre was trying to privatise the insurance and banking sectors. The strike would be a warning to the Centre as well.
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