Trade unions gear up to ensure success of strike on Friday

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Mangaluru, 01 Sep 2016: Trade organisations in Dakshina Kannada district are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the success of the all India strike on Friday. With various sector employee’s association - both state and central government already extending support, trade organisations have held several activities to stress on the need to observe the strike, notwithstanding the overtures made by the Union government to the workers on the eve of the strike.

 

Vasanth Achary, CITU state secretary told reporters on Wednesday that the runaway rise in prices of essential commodities, rise in unemployment, amendments to labour laws that favour the employers rather than the employees, the road safety bill that will prove to be detrimental to the interests of employees in the transport sector are some of the issues that the trade organisations have taken up. "We intend to highlight these issues through the strike," he said.

 

All industrial units, shops and establishments, labourers, beedi workers, construction workers, cashew workers, road side vendors, bus employees - government and private, city and express bus employees, auto rickshaws, maxi cabs, lorries, tanker, school vehicles drivers will participate in the strike, he said. Admitting that this will cause inconvenience to a section of the people, Vasanth urged them to cooperate given the larger implications of these issues.

 

Stating that the strike will be from 6am to 6pm, he said hospitals, ambulances, medical shops and milk vehicles are exempt from the purview of the strike. Likewise, people headed for marriages in their personal vehicles too are exempt, he said. J Balakrishna Shetty, CITU district president, Sunil Kumar Bajal, CITU district general secretary, H V Rao, AITUC district general secretary, Seetharam Berinja, and Karunkar, AITUC district leaders were present on ths occasion.