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| Trade unions criticize Union Govt, oppose neo-liberal policies | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 21: Second day of country wide strike's call given by trade unions, various trade unions have criticized centre government and opposed privatization of public services.
A protest rally was taken out here today which commenced from Dogra Chowk, Jewel Chowk, Gumat Bazaar, City Chowk, Raghunath Bazaar and culminated at Indira Chowk.
Addressing the rally, MLA, M Y Tarigami said that resistance to the neoliberal policies is widespread not only in our country but in all the countries wherever they have been implemented, including in the advanced capitalist countries. In Latin America, where these policies were initiated much earlier than in India, strong resentment erupted that have led to the defeat of the pro-imperialist governments of these countries and elected the governments that are opposed to the USA imperialism.
"Many of these governments are now implementing pro-people policies and have increased their expenditure on providing food security, education and health facilities and employment generation. Some governments as in Venezuela and Bolivia have nationalized foreign oil and gas companies and banks while Argentina has nationalized pension funds" he added.
Shiv Kumar Sharma President, Thakur Raghubir Singh Chib General Secretary INTUC, while addressing the gathering demanded for strict enforcement of labour laws and punitive measures for violation of labour laws. They said that in majority of workplaces, minimum wages are not being paid, basic social security benefits are denied.
Sham Prasad Kesar senior leader of CITU and Om Parkash, General Secretary,CITU demanded that government should curb the price rise and universalisation of public distribution system and complete ban on speculation and future trading in commodity market which alone can contain the rising prices, there cannot be a third way for the same.
Arun Kr. Gupta, Ashwani Pradhan and Anil Vaid (Banking sector) criticised Banking Laws amendment bill by the UPA-II government, They said the 2012 banking laws paves the way for the entry of corporate houses into banking. They said that the union government has undone what the Indira Gandhi government did, that is the bank nationalization Act.
Dalip Koul and Pawan Gupta (Insurance Sector) while criticizing the UPA government decision to raise the cap for foreign direct investment in the insurance sector from the current 26 per cent to 49 percent and 49 per cent FDI in pension funds, said that these decisions would make India's finance sector more vulnerable to speculative finance capital.
Balkar Singh and D R Sharma of AITUC expressed concern on widespread contractorism and casualisation of work in most of the workplaces. "These contract workers are deprived of almost all statutory benefits, their employment is always under threat by the respective contractors. This has given rise to a dangerous discrimination where, under the same roof, contract workers doing the same work as the regular workers in the establishment, but are getting hardly one sixth or one seventh of wages of their counterpart among regular workers" they added.
Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh(BMS) in Jammu and Kashmir also taken out rally at Bari Brahmana industrial complex and at other places at Salal Project, Kishtwar, Sewa Project in support of nationwide strike. |
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