The 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) announced on 3 November that they would go on a two-day nationwide strike during the budget session of Parliament and before that would organize a series of protests and conferences starting on 11 November. Central trade unions including the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) and Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) argued that their demonstration was aimed at the central government’s PSU’s. Opposing the disinvestment plan is to highlight the hardships of the working class, the challenge of jobs and the issues of farmers.
The central trade unions said that their protest and plan for the nationwide strike “is to make people aware of the dangerous effects of this policy and that the trade unions and their workers have decided to “systematically reach out to the people.” In this episode 11 November There will be a national convention of trade unions in Delhi, followed by a state-level convention and then demonstrations across the country.
This will be followed by a 2-day nationwide general strike during the budget session in 2022. He informed that the meeting (forum of United Trade Unions) decided to observe November 26, the anniversary of the national general strike of trade unions and the “Kisan March” towards Delhi, as a nationwide protest day.
The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), a central trade union affiliated with the RSS, along with 10 CTUs is not participating in the nationwide strike or other demonstrations.
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10 CTU argued that the national monetization pipeline move would lead to “an increase in user charges for people, in addition to other devastating negative impacts on our infrastructure and economy.”
In the Union Budget for 2021-22, the central government had set a clear path for stake sale in public sector companies and financial institutions, including two PSU banks and an insurance company, in FY22.
Companies like Bharat Petroleum Corporation of India (BPCL), IDBI Bank, Air India, Shipping Corporation of India, Container Corporation of India, Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited and Pawan Hans were included in the stake sale list. Of these, the air carrier Air India has now been approved by the Central Government. Apart from this, LIC’s IPO is also in the pipeline.
While experts and economists argue in favor of the central government’s national monetization pipeline move, trade unions see it as privatization and anti-labour, arguing that such moves can have long-term consequences for job security and rising prices. term effect. 10 CTUs claimed that the government was not considering any of the demands of them and the farmer organisations.
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