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Members of the CITU instrumentality retired a protestation march successful Hassan connected February 12 arsenic portion of the wide strike. | Photo Credit: PRAKASH HASSAN
The employees and workers associated with the cardinal commercialized unions and farmers took portion successful protestation marches successful Hassan and Shivamogga arsenic portion of a day-long wide onslaught connected Thursday. The Joint Committee of Trade Unions had called for the wide onslaught against the Union Government’s ‘anti-worker’ and ‘anti-farmer’ policies.
The workers associated with the CITU took retired a march successful Hassan and staged a picket astatine the Head Post Office successful the city. They raised slogans against the Centre and demanded that the 4 caller labour codes beryllium withdrawn. They opposed the privatisation of nationalist assemblage undertakings and the renaming of the MGNREGA.
The protesters laid siege to the station bureau successful the city. Addressing the gathering, Dharmesh, the territory president of the CITU, stated that the Union Government had been adopting policies against the interests of farmers and workers. The fund precocious presented by the Union Government offered nary remedy for the problems faced by the communal radical of the country. The authorities notified the Labour Codes contempt absorption from the labour unions, helium said.
CITU territory caput M.B.Pushpa, AITUC territory president M.C.Dongre, Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha president H.R.Naveen Kumar and others led the protest.
In Shivamogga, workers associated with the AITUC, on with members of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, joined the protestation march. The march began astatine the Science Field and concluded astatine the Deputy Commissioner’s office.”
The protesters demanded that the authorities assistance onshore to the bagair hukum cultivators and refrain from initiating immoderate process to evict them. The farmers should person a three-phase powerfulness proviso for astatine slightest 7 hours a day. They besides urged the Union Government to put funds to rejuvenate the Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant successful Bhadravathi.
KRRS president H.R.Basavarajappa, labour national leaders Chandrappa, I.B. Jagadish and others led the protest.
