As many as 634 Group ‘D’ employees working in Kittur Rani Channamma Residential Sainik Schools, Eklavya Model Residential Schools, Morarji Desai Residential Schools, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and other government residential schools run by Departments of Social Welfare and Backward Classes and Minority in the district are planning to launch an indefinite strike from April 18 demanding work throughout the year.
Addressing a press conference in the city recently, G. Amaresh, district president of the Association of Government and Private Hostel Workers Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI), said that the labourers were employed only nine months a year at present.