Farm outfit begins protests in support of retrenched staff
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Farm outfit begins protests in support of retrenched staff
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Bathinda: Demanding to reinstate the employees of Walmart’s Best Price at Bhucho near Bathinda, farm group BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) on Thursday started continuous protests for a week at five more outlets of the MNC in Punjab. The protests were started at Amritsar, Jalandhar, Zirakpur and two outlets at Ludhiana. The farm group will take the further decision on October 6. As the farm group had laid siege to the Best Price outlet at Bhucho, situated on Bathinda-Chandigarh national highway for close to a year now, the Best Price had retrenched a number of employees. The employees had in the past approached the farm group and had met organisation president Joginder Singh Ugrahan at Tikri border with an appeal to support them. The organisation has then asked the Walmart to get back the employees on jobs. Walmart had to approach the Punjab and Haryana high court to get the perishable and expired items from the store and it is only after the intervention of the court that perishable items were removed. Joginder Singh Ugrahan, who led the protest at Zirakpur, said, “We support the employees and want they should be recalled at the jobs. We have started continuous protests for a week and will take the further decision on October 6.”
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2021-10-01
Coverage
Chandigarh