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Hundreds of municipal workers nether the banner of the Karnataka State Municipal Workers Union affiliated to Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged a protestation extracurricular the Kalaburagi City Corporation connected Thursday demanding regularisation of each municipal workers, implementation of adjacent wage for adjacent work, abolition of the declaration labour strategy and proviso of basal payment facilities.
The protesters submitted a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister done the territory medication and the Kalaburagi City Corporation raising a 16-point charter of demands concerning the payment and work conditions of municipal workers.
Addressing the gathering, national honorary president K. Neela said that the State authorities has, successful 2016-17, decided to abolish the declaration labour strategy and regularise sanitation workers.
However, drivers, cleaners and sweepers successful Kalaburagi proceed to beryllium engaged done contractors contempt the government’s decision, she said.
“Officials person promised america that the process of regularising workers presently nether the nonstop outgo strategy and bringing declaration drivers, cleaners and sweepers nether the nonstop outgo strategy volition beryllium completed wrong a week. They person besides assured america of implementing our remaining demands and preventing immoderate signifier of harassment of civic workers. We expect the authorities to honour these commitments without delay, failing which the national volition beryllium compelled to intensify its agitation,” she said.
The memorandum said that though 936 workers person been brought nether the nonstop outgo strategy successful Kalaburagi, the process of granting them imperishable idiosyncratic presumption remained stalled. It said that sanitation workers, sewer workers, coagulated discarded handlers, drivers, parkland workers, h2o proviso unit and different municipal employees proceed to enactment nether hard and unsafe conditions without capable protective instrumentality and payment facilities.
Among the cardinal demands are contiguous regularisation of each contract, direct-payment and daily-wage municipal workers, abolition of the declaration system, implementation of adjacent wage for adjacent work, outgo of revised minimum wages with arrears, proviso of information gear, wellness security and mishap insurance, prohibition of manual scavenging, peculiar facilities for women workers, lodging and acquisition assistance, pension benefits and recruitment of astatine slightest 1,000 further civic workers to conscionable the increasing needs of the city.
The national besides sought the contiguous merchandise of pending wages of drivers, loaders and sweepers and demanded that each forms of harassment of civic workers beryllium stopped.
CITU territory president M.B. Sajjan, vice-president Nagappa Rayachurkar, Dalit Rights Committee president Sudham Dhanni, caput Pandurang Mavinakar, Building Workers Union territory president Shrimant Biradar, Janavadi Mahila Sanghatane State vice-president Meenakshi Bali, DYFI State president Lavitra, SFI person Imamsab Nadaf, Pradeep and Tayanna, among others, extended enactment to the agitation.
