Prime Minister’s Appeal to Central Trade Unions
I appeal to the Central Trade Unions to withdraw
their call for a countrywide General Strike on 20 and 21 February, 2013.
Such a strike would lead to avoidable loss to our economy and
inconvenience to the public through disruption of services. While some
of the issues raised by the Trade Unions are already being acted upon
and others are at various stages of consideration, I have requested my
senior Cabinet colleagues Shri A K Antony, Shri Sharad Pawar, Shri P
Chidambaram and Shri Mallikarjun Kharge to together hold discussions
with the leaders of the Trade Unions. I am confident that these
discussions would result in a course of action that is acceptable both
to the Trade Unions and the Government
AITUC
general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta had on Saturday said that it was for
the first time all trade unions have come together for the two-day
strike as “government has not taken any action to look into the problems
of sky rise inflation, disinvestment in public sector units and
non-implementation of labour laws“.
The
strike has been called jointly by the Bhartiya Majdoor Sangh (BMS), All
India Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress
(AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU),
All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC) and other such
organisations.
The Independent Federation of Workers and Employees too have joined the protest.
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