COIMBATORE: Labour unions in the district will observe a modest May Day this year.
All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) have asked their members to hoist red flags at their residences and offices, and in front of industrial units, but with not more than four people in attendance.
They also said this May Day would be an occasion to seek better working conditions for healthcare and sanitary workers and “to condemn the anti-labour mindset of the Centre.”
A joint communication from the representatives of AITUC and CITU to all their members said this May Day should be used to salute frontline workers fighting Covid-19.
The communication said members should work towards the welfare of unorganised workers, farmers, farm labourers, construction workers and weavers whose livelihoods have been hit by the lockdown. “It is not enough to revere healthcare and sanitary workers. The state and Centre should take necessary steps to provide permanent jobs to sanitary workers and also give them proper pay,” it said.
They also said the BJP government has been taking steps to reduce 44 labour welfare laws to four, which would undermine labour rights.
All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) have asked their members to hoist red flags at their residences and offices, and in front of industrial units, but with not more than four people in attendance.
They also said this May Day would be an occasion to seek better working conditions for healthcare and sanitary workers and “to condemn the anti-labour mindset of the Centre.”
A joint communication from the representatives of AITUC and CITU to all their members said this May Day should be used to salute frontline workers fighting Covid-19.
The communication said members should work towards the welfare of unorganised workers, farmers, farm labourers, construction workers and weavers whose livelihoods have been hit by the lockdown. “It is not enough to revere healthcare and sanitary workers. The state and Centre should take necessary steps to provide permanent jobs to sanitary workers and also give them proper pay,” it said.
They also said the BJP government has been taking steps to reduce 44 labour welfare laws to four, which would undermine labour rights.
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