BJP govt finishing off labour movement with employer-specific laws: Bhalla
Shiv Sharma appoints Shashi Syal as Vice President J&K INTUC
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JAMMU: Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) Jammu & Kashmir President Shiv Kumar Sharma on Tuesday appointed Shashi Syal as Vice President J&K INTUC in presence of JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla. Prominent among those present on the occasion include Block President Suriender Singh Dutt, Satpal Sapolia, Mohd Ashraf , Ghulam Hassan, Sunil Kumar, Yashpal, Bana Ram, Vishal Singh, Sunil Sehgal, Kamla Devi, Bebo and Anwar Chowdhary.
Congratulating Shashi Syal on being appointed as Vice President J&K INTUC, Bhalla said INTUC office bearers to help unorganised workers in achieving decent employment and fair pay for a perfect purchasing power for the rural, agricultural and gig workers. He said INTUC should labour relations that focus on employment guarantee by making the worker a shareholder, and improved social security net.
BJP government has been enacting laws to benefit employers and ending the existence of the labour movement, Bhalla said. Bhalla further said that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru took several welfare steps after Independence and the Congress made the country powerful with the help of workers, whereas BJP led Union government was working to finish off these gains. Shiv Kumar Sharma claimed that laws that gave various rights and privileges to workers have been changed by bringing in legislations that serve the interest of employers and enslaves workers. Sharma said workers are facing widespread economic hardship as a result of job losses, plummeting incomes, skyrocketing food and fuel prices, and chronic unemployment, all of which only aggravated under BJP rule. There is intense discontent against the Modi government. With food, gas and fuel prices so high, it is hard for an ordinary family to live, but this government ignores the working class totally.
Sharma demanded universal social security coverage, a higher minimum wage, a halt to the sale of state assets, and no more privatisation of public sector banks.
