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Trade union members stage demonstration

Staff Reporter

They seek proper implementation of labour laws

Photo: M. Balaji

For a cause: Members of various trade unions staging a demonstration near the Railway Station in Tirupur on Wednesday to press their charter of demands. —

Tirupur: Trade unionists affiliated to Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) and Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) staged a demonstration here on Wednesday to press their charter of demands.

They called for stricter and proper implementation of labour laws in all the textile-related units in the Tirupur knitwear cluster to ensure that workers were not exploited.

Wages

Minimum wages should be ensured and right of workers to form unions should not be opposed. The agitators said that a portion of financial assistance availed of by industrial units from external funding agencies should be spent towards the welfare of the workforce.

They also demanded formulation of fiscal and monetary measures to curb the rise in prices of essential commodities.

“To curb the inflationary trend, the Central Government should impose a blanket ban on futures trading in all essential commodities,” trade union members pointed out.

The unionists asked the Central Government to drop the proposed move to impose economic criteria for benefiting from welfare assistance from the Boards created for unorganized sector workers.

The other major demand raised by them was the move to sell shares of public sector undertakings to correct fiscal deficits in the Union Budgets.

Expressing solidarity to the agitation, representatives of State and Central Government employees’ associations also attended the demonstration.

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