Civic workers to step up stir against GO

Municipal workers at a meeting organised by GVMC Contract Workers' Union on the proposed strike at the Gandhi statue near GVMC on Wednesday in Visakhapatnam.

Agitation against GO 279 that affected municipal workers will continue until it is scrapped and workers will go on state-wide strike from September 15, CITU State President Ch. Narsinga Rao has said.

Addressing members of GVMC Contract Workers’ Union, affiliated to CITU, at the Gandhi statue on Wednesday, he said though they were agitating the GO for 20 months, the government was indifferent.

He expressed the apprehension that contractors would introduce mechanisation and workers would be worst hit if the GO was implemented.

A. P. Municipal Workers and Employees’ Federation general secretary K Uma Maheswara Rao said the government was not responding to even a strike notice. The assurance to skilled and semi-skilled workers was not unfulfilled even after two years.

Municipal Union State president K. Samrajyam, union honorary president P. Venkata Reddy and president G. Subba Rao participated.