President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) M.K. Pandhe has called upon workers to launch struggles to get their long-pending demands fulfilled.
Addressing the 11th State conference of the CITU in Mandya on Friday, he underscored the need for unity among trade unions to improve the condition of workers.
He said that trade unions, irrespective of political affiliation, would be launching a nationwide “Jail bharo” agitation on March 5 to pressure the Union Government to take steps to check the spiralling prices of essential commodities and to address the problem of unemployment, among other issues.
Successive governments had pursued anti-workers’ policy, he said. Workers were not getting minimum wages and other benefits assured under the labour laws, Mr. Pandhe said. Workers were finding difficult to make ends meet in the changed economic scenario, he said.
He refuted the Union Government’s claim that the country’s economy was progressing, and charged that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government had surrendered to the United States.
The economic policies being pursued by the UPA Government had helped only in boosting the profits of industries and not helped the working class, Mr. Pandhe said.
State president of CITU B. Madhava said that Centre was following only “anti-people” policies.
The Government had made the life of the working class miserable by failing to control the spiralling prices of essential commodities, he charged.
He criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government in the State for supporting communal forces and damaging the secular fabric of society.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
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