AITUC reaffirms its opposition to labour policy on 106th Foundation Day in Puducherry

The CPI-affiliated All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) successful Puducherry reaffirmed its rejection of the Union government’s “pro-corporate and anti-labour” policies arsenic portion of its 106th Foundation Day activities.

CPI nationalist enforcement subordinate and State Secretary A.M. Saleem hoisted the AITUC emblem successful the beingness of AITUC State president Dinesh Ponnaiah, and K. Sethu Selvam, wide secretary, Nara. Kalainathan, erstwhile MLA, Ramamoorthy and Geethanathan, office-bearers of the All India Agricultural Workers Union and different AITUC leaders.

The AITUC marked the observance by reiterating its absorption to the draught labour argumentation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment of the NDA authorities nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The AITUC said the draught labour policy, ‘Shram Shakti Nidhi 2025,’ was issued arsenic a unilateral measurement by the BJP authorities successful a blatant usurpation of the established tripartite process.

Holding the determination “deeply disturbing and undemocratic” and a betrayal of the moving class, the AITUC urged the Union Ministry of Labour to instantly retreat the draught and initiate consultations with stakeholders.

Pointing retired that it was a modular and important signifier established successful India to consult with the Central commercialized unions earlier drafting specified a policy, the AITUC said specified a signifier unsocial would guarantee the legitimacy and effectiveness of the draught policy. “Consultation with commercialized unions is not an enactment oregon a formality; it is simply a cornerstone of bully labour policy”, the AITUC said.

The AITUC besides powerfully opposed “the story of cosmopolitan societal security” constructed by the Labour Ministry. Welfare schemes bash not make societal security. Minimum wages and societal information should beryllium provided arsenic ineligible rights to each worker, including unorganised assemblage workers, regular wage workers, impermanent workers, declaration workers, cultivation workers and those successful different segments and this should beryllium ensured done rigorous inspections, it said.