Trade unions to launch non-cooperation movement against anti-labour policies from July 3

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

DIBRUGARH: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and several other trade organizations resolved, at a meeting held recently, to launch countrywide noncooperation movement and protest rally from July 3 against the Narendra Modi-led Union Government's 'anti-people' and 'anti-labour' policies.

The Modi government had miserably squandered four valuable months in taking preventive measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and had hurriedly come out with countrywide lockdown in the country, the reasons behind AITUC's proposed agitation on July 3. Moreover, the government has considered such a disastrous period as law and order crisis instead of considering the crisis as health and medical emergency.

The Union Government has also curtailed the right of labourers to work for eight hours, an issue which the labour community earned after 150 years of long struggle. The AITUC alleged that the government's decision to enhance working hours in tea and other production units from 8 hours to 12 hours, was nothing but a step further to help corporate houses by curtailing rights of the labour community one after another.

Assam State secretary Ranjan Chowdhury, in a statement issued to the press, stated that more than 24 crore people became unemployed in the country after losing their jobs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic while the Union Government had very tactfully propagated a dream with the slogan 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'. Choudhury called upon all sections of labourers, workers, government employees and unemployed youths to join in the proposed non-cooperation movement in order to make it a great success.  

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