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Call for united fight against move to amend labour laws

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`No efforts being made to create jobs despite heavy investment flow'

CALL FOR UNITY: The former Minister S.K. Kanta addressing a May Day function organised by the Gulbarga District Graha Nirmana Kooli Karmikara Sangha in Gulbarga on Tuesday.

GULBARGA: CPI(M) State Secretariat Member Maruti Manpade has called upon the working class to unitedly fight against the move of the pro-liberalisation lobby to pressure the Government to amend labour laws.

He was speaking at a May Day function organised by the district unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) here on Tuesday.

Mr. Manpade said that the advent of liberalisation and globalisation had sounded the death knell of the working class.

It had led to widening of the rich-poor divide. In the organised sector, reduction in work force due to automation had led to largescale unemployment, he said.

Mr. Manpade said that no concrete efforts had been made to increase employment avenues despite heavy investment flow in the industry.

Addressing a May Day function organised by the Gulbarga District Graha Nirman Kooli Karmikara Sangha, the former Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader S.K. Kanta said that exploitation of the working class had increased and all their benefits were being withdrawn systematically.

Mr. Kanta said that the condition of the working class in the unorganised sector was pathetic and no labour laws were in force to protect their interests.

Even the minimum wages fixed by the government were not being paid to the workers, he alleged.

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