People's Democracy

(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Vol. XXVI

No. 27

July 14,2002

EIGHT MINIMUM DEMANDS

FOLLOWING are the eight agreed minimum demands endorsed by the national assembly of workers:

Halt to privatisation of profit-making and potentially viable public sector undertakings.
No changes in the labour laws, including the Industrial Dispute Act and the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, favouring the employers and against the interest of workers.
Restoration of quantitative restrictions on imports, the removal of which is much to the detriment of industry, agriculture and national interest as a whole.
Scrap policies leading to severe aggravation of joblessness and unemployment and in their place evolve nationwide employment generation policies and programmes.
Well thought out social security schemes including an unemployment insurance scheme.
Immediate enactment of comprehensive legislation for Agricultural Workers.
Amendment of Payment of Bonus Act by removing all ceilings.
Restoration of 12 per cent interest on the Provident Fund deposits.