BBN workers under the banner of CITU staged protest for their demands
On the call of CITU District Committee, BBN workers under the banner of CITU staged a vigorous protest at the labor office jharmajri regarding registration of unions and labor laws. CITU has warned that if the Labor Department does not rectify its functioning, then on March 15, the workers will hold a massive demonstration in BBN. CITU State President Vijender Mehra, District President Mohit Verma, Vice President Omdutt Sharma, General Secretary ND Ranaut, Daljit Singh, Mandeep, Ravi, Anil, Suresh, Ravindra, Deep Ram, Kushal, Pramod, Jitendra Sahu, Pradeep, Gurdev, Rajendra, Dharmendra Hundreds of laborers including Rohit Katyal, Kuldeep, Satendra Ramesh, Ramchandra, Chandan, Mahendra were involved.
The workers’ demonstration, which started at eleven o’clock, went on till two o’clock in the afternoon. CITU workers were quite upset with the functioning of the Labor Department. They kept shouting slogans for three hours. During this, Labor Officer Mr. Surendra Singh Bisht and Labor Inspector Amit Thakur present in the meeting of Labor Minister Col. Dr. Dhani Ram Shandil had to leave the meeting and met the CITU delegation. The CITU leaders sought immediate resolution of their demands, on which the labor officer assured to fulfill their demands.
CITU State President Vijender Mehra, District General Secretaries ND Ranaut, Om Dutt Sharma, Mohit Verma and Daljit Singh while addressing the protesters alleged that the labor office of BBN is working at the behest of industrialists and verifying the unions for many years. I am reluctant. Due to this poor and biased functioning of the labor office, it has become almost impossible for the laborers to register their union. The Labor Department has completely sat in the lap of the authoroties and the laborers’ hopes of getting justice have ended. The demands of the workers have also been gathering dust in the files of the labor offices for years. Industrialists are making the laborers suffer due to the poor functioning and connivance of the labor office. They are being fired for forming a union or they are being transferred out of the state. Company and contract laborers are being fully exploited by the owners but the labor department is silent. The officials of the Labor Department are shirking their duty by merely conducting inspections and are not taking any action on the violation of labor laws by the company managements. He has warned that if the demands of the workers are not resolved immediately, then the workers of BBN will stage a massive demonstration in BBN on March 15.
