Trade unions mobilise support for September 2 strike

August 31, 2015 12:00 am | Updated March 29, 2016 06:13 pm IST - SALEM:

The central trade unions are going all out to mobilise support from people in Salem and Namakkal districts for the nation-wide strike on September 2, to protest against the anti-labour policies pursued by the Centre.

Street corner meetings

The trade unions such as CITU, AITUC, INTUC, HMS, BMS, LPF, AICCTU have been organising street corner meetings across these districts, particularly in the areas where labour concentration is more, for the past few days to garner support for the strike.

Their demands included allotment of adequate funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, jobs for farm workers for 200 days in a year and hike their pay to Rs. 300 per day.

At a meeting held in front of the bus stand in Vazhappadi town on Sunday morning, A. Vimalan, district secretary of the AITUC, Chellamuthu of CITU, Ganesan of HMS, and representatives of other trade unions spoke.

At the meeting held at Jalagandapuram on Saturday, P. Paramasivam, Salem district vice-president of the AITUC, and K. C. Gopikumar of CITU, spoke highlighting the demands and the need for making the strike a big success for attracting the attention of the government. Similar agitations were held on Saturday near the Karuppur plant of Indian Oil Corporation. At all the places, the union members distributed pamphlets containing the demands.

According to T. Udayakumar, Salem district secretary of the CITU, it was planned to conduct street corner meetings in 57 centres in the district, and campaign has already been finished in 35 points. In Namakkal district, the central trade unions conducted mobilisation campaign in Pallipalayam and Komarapalayam towns recently, according to N. Velusamy, Namakkal district secretary of the CITU.

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