The NDA government at the centre has hardly completed three months, but is already on an aggressive mood to curtail and restrict the rights of the workers to suit to the requirements of the corporates and employers.
The Factories (Amendment) Bill 2014 and The Apprentices (Amendment) Bill 2014 have aleady been moved in Lok Sabha in the last session which make onslaught on the existing rights of the workers. The govt. has also brought back The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2011 which the UPA government had moved earlier.
The BJP government in Rajasthan has already passed anti-worker amendments to three existing laws viz. Industrial Disputes Act, Factories Act and Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition Act).
These amendments not only takes away the existing rights of workers to organise but also allow the employers out of many of their responsibilities. About 70 % of workers will become out of the provisions of the labour laws, creating a ‘hire and fire’ situation putting the workers at the mercy of the employers. This is being done to maximise the profits of the corporates and big business who have liberally donated to the election funds of the ruling class parties.
The united movement of the working class, under the Central Trade Unions, has already started preparations for mighty and sustained struggles against this onslaught. A National Protest Convention is scheduled to be held at Mavlenkar Hall Annexe on 15 August 2014,which is expected to chart out programmes of action and effective campaign.
BJP/NDA Governments’ onslaughts on workers’ rights.
24 Sunday Aug 2014
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