Trade unions submitted a 15-point memorandum of demands to the Chairman of the Labor Welfare Board

State level officials of all labour organisations of Himachal Pradesh, CITU, INTUC, BMS, AITUC and TUCC met the newly appointed Chairman of Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board Nardev Singh Kanwar and Secretary Rajiv Kumar at Shimla Board Office and apprised them of the problems faced by the workers. A memorandum was submitted regarding the demands. It was led by CITU national secretary Dr Kashmir Singh Thakur, former state president of BMS Surendra Thakur and INTUC’s Roop Singh Thakur, AITUC’s Jagdish Bhardwaj and TUCC’s Shravan Kumar. Board member and Trade Union Coordination Committee coordinator Bhupendra There was a long discussion point by point on the 15 point charter of demands sent by Singh in the meeting in which board members Pradeep Kumar, Jagdish Bhardwaj, INTUC’s Prempal Bhatia and Saroj Thakur of the workers union also participated. After two and a half hours of discussion, consensus was reached on most of the demands. These will be implemented within a week and some issues remain which will be implemented after being passed in the board meeting to be held in the first week of August. All the labour organisations demanded from the Chairman of the Board to restore the registration, renewal and financial assistance of the workers which was pending for a long time. MNREGA workers have been considered eligible to remain members of the board and get financial assistance, but their pending benefits of three years are still not being released and neither is their registration and renewal being done. Apart from this, private buildings A condition has been imposed for verification of the certificates of the labourers working in the office by the Panchayat Secretary, which is illegal and a demand has been made to remove it. Apart from this, the labourers were asked to share the OTP number for online registration or to appear in the office in person. This is being done which is against the directive of the Supreme Court whereas the labourer is authorised to send his registration and other documents through his representative or labour union. The unions also demanded that due to a wrong decision of the board, many labourers are facing problems. The renewal of workers has not been done for the last two years, hence they should be given an additional year for this. Demand was raised to release all pending benefits in the next three months and to give three months time to workers who have not applied. Went. On the demand of the unions, it was decided to hold a meeting of the board on 3rd August and a joint meeting of the unions with the labour welfare officers the next day so that it could help in coordination at all levels. It was agreed in the meeting that the Gram Panchayats And construction workers working under various schemes in municipal bodies can be made members of the board. Apart from this, construction of private residential houses and other works in rural areas will also be included in it. Proof of work for this work The letter will be issued by the person getting the work done instead of the Panchayat Secretary. Apart from this, it was also discussed that the issue will be raised in the next board meeting to reinstate the right of issuing such certificate by the trade unions and the workers will be given the cess. Correspondence will be done to pass the decision of removing the condition of issuing the relevant certificate which is pending with the government. It was also discussed that the cess should be collected from the big construction companies, contractors and builders who do not pay it. Steps will be taken for.