Port workers are going on strike today to negotiate wages.
The Union of Indian Water Transport Workers at Ports (CITU), All India Harbor and Dock Workers Union (HMS) (Kulkarni) has protested the delay in concluding the bilateral wage negotiations and signing the agreement of the port workers in the country. ), All India Harbor and Dock Workers Federation (HMS) (Shanti Patel). The Indian National Port and Dock Workers’ Union (INDUC) and the Port, Dock and Waterfront Workers’ Union (AITUC) have called for a strike from today.
18,000 workers will participate in this, said D. Narendra Rao, General Secretary of the Indian Water Transport Workers Union (CITU).
Profitable Ports The central government continues to privatize ports and dockyards. This has resulted in thousands of vacancies in major ports. Only 20,000 permanent workers are employed where 3.5 lakh workers are required to work at the ports. In this situation, it is said that the Union Ministry of Shipping issued an order last November to appoint employees on outsourcing and contract basis instead of appointing permanent workers in the 3rd and 4th level.
Due to this, crores of youths who are waiting for jobs have lost their jobs. Therefore, it has been reported that today they have decided to join the strike at major ports across the country, emphasizing the demands of the port pensioners, who are demanding an end to the anti-labour trend.
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