By Pritpal Kaur /
NEW DELHI: Indian national Trade Union Congress (INTUC) 31st plenary session beginning on December 4 here will bring all the trade unions together to fight against the anti labour policies of the central government and to protect the interests of the labour.
Earlier the workers had observed a successful one day general strike on 2nd September 2015. INTUC claims to have a membership of 3 cores and 33 lakhs. According to INTUC the present government wants to abolish permanent jobs to pave way for engaging contract labours in order to avoid terminal benefits.
It’s been observed that central government has recently written off interest penalties of the big industries amounting to 40,000 cores of rupees, which was due to the government. The money that belongs to the tax payer.
INTUC claims to be working among the workers under the political leadership of the congress party.
One of the major demands of INTUC is that central government introduces pension scheme to all the retired employees. The pension amount should not be less than the 50% of the last drawn salary of the retired employee. It should be considered as the ‘social security’ to the retired employee.
INTUC has long been demanding the workers to be recognized as a social partners in the industry.
It also opposes 7th pay commission recommendations as these are said to be anti-employee and anti-labour.
There is a demand for amendment to the existing Bonus and Gratuity acts as well. Through the session INTUC plans to mobilize the efforts to organize the agricultural labour and others who are engaged in informal sectors as well as the self-employed.
During this three day session INTUC is planning discus to launch a mammoth agitation along with other central trade unions including Railways, Postal, Banking etc. against the central government’s anti-labour policies and injustice in the recommendations of the 7th pay commission.