Tuesday 28 February 2012
Banking,
insurance, telecom, transport, Defence, mining, postal, and other
Central and State Government services could be hit on Tuesday owing to
the country-wide strike call by central trade unions.
This
is for the first time that trade unions of all hues — the Left, the
Congress, the BJP, the Shiv Sena, and the Muslim League — have joined
hands to protest against what they call violation of trade union rights,
growing contracterisation, disinvestment, privatisation and growing
price rise.
“Apart
from the 11 central trade unions, 40 federations and about 5,000 other
unions will be participating in the action,” said Mr A..K. Padmanabhan,
President, Centre for Indian Trade Unions.
Asked
why the unions were not heeding to appeals by the Prime Minister and
the Labour Minister, Mr Padmanabhan said: “They have still not called us
for talks. We were forced to give the strike notice only after repeated
attempts to reach out failed. Workers from organised and organised
sectors are expected to participate in the “mega” strike.
