Employees, workers protest farm laws, policies of Centre
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Employees, workers protest farm laws, policies of Centre
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Under the banner of the ‘Theka Mulazam Sangharsh Morcha Punjab’, members of various unions of contractual and regular employees and labourers staged a protest outside the DC office against the farm Acts and “wrong policies” of the Central Government.Members of industrial workers’ union and the Bharti Kisan Union (Ugrahan) also participated in the protest.They demanded from the Centre to repeal the “draconian” farm laws. They also demanded amendments that were against labour laws should be revoked. They said the government should provide good salaries to labourers so that they could run their families without any problems. They also sought from government to control inflation and make arrangement of regular jobs for all.Charan Singh Noorpura from the BKU (Ugrahan), Bhupinder Singh Grewal of the Water Supply and Sanitation Employees Union, Shamsher Singh of the Punjab Roadways-PUNBUS Contractual Employees Union, Rajwinder of the Karkhana Mazdoor Union, Harwinder Singh of the Moulders and Steel Workers Union were present. They also submitted a memorandum of their demands at the DC Office, said Satish Sachdeva from the Pensioners Bhawan, here.
Publisher
The Tribune
Date
2021-01-09
Coverage
Ludhiana