People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
23
June 05, 2011
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Vol. XXXV
No.
23 June 05, 2011 |
PETROL PRICE
HIKE
Central TUs
to Protest Countrywide
HELD
at the INTUC office in New Delhi on May 29, with G Sanjeeva Reddy in
the chair,
a meeting of the central trade union organisations, viz the CITU, BMS,
INTUC,
AITUC, HMS, AIUTUC, AICCTU, UTUC, TUCC and SEWA, noted with serious
concern that
despite several rounds of all-in united protest by the entire trade
union
movement of the country, the government has remained totally
unresponsive to
major concerns of the working people.
The
central trade unions called upon the working people of the country to
further
widen the unity achieved through united struggles and launch united
protest actions
against the unresponsive government through joint countrywide
struggles. The
meeting also notified a programme of actions in this regard.
According
to the statement issued after the meeting, the central trade union
organisations will jointly observe a Protest Day through
demonstrations, rallies
and dharna etc at all the workplaces, state capitals and district
headquarters
on June 23, 2011, against the hike in petrol prices and the
contemplated move
of the government to increase the prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG,
which
will further fuel a rise in the prices of all commodities.
The
central trade unions will also extend full support to all the sectoral
and
industry-based struggles, in particular to the united strike of bank
employees
that is scheduled to take place on July 7 and the united struggle of
coal
workers whose timing is to be decided by their united national
convention on
June 28, 2011.
The
central trade unions will again meet on June 27, 2011 at the INTUC
office in
