10 central unions to hold nationwide protest on September 23 against labour laws, disinvestment of PSUs

Ravi S Singh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 22

As many as 10 Central Trade Union Organisations will jointly observe September 23 as ‘Nation-wide Protest Day’ to oppose the codification of labour laws, disinvestment and privatisation of public sector enterprises---including 100 per cent FDI in some of the core sectors. .

The unions organising the proposed protests are INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC.

AITUC national general secretary Amarjeet Kaur said independent sectoral Federations and Associations will also take part in the protest.

"The policies of the central government are against the interests of the working people of the country," another leader said.

The Unions' other demands include lockdown wages for workers, no retrenchments of the workers and no wage cuts during the lockdown period as advised by the Union government.