CITU complains to ILO on anganwadi layoffs
The HinduThe Centre of Indian Trade Unions has approached the International Labour Organisation against the Haryana and Delhi Governments for retrenching 975 and 991 anganwadi workers respectively for striking work demanding an increase in honorarium. CITU general secretary Tapan Sen said in his complaint to Director, Bureau for Workers Activities of the ILO Maria Helena Andre that the retrenchments have taken place “under knowledge and instigation” by the Centre. In addition, for several months wages and allowances of the anganwadi workers and helpers had not been paid in States like Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra,” the complaint said, adding that workers went on strike as the last resort after duly serving strike notice. “The Haryana government has terminated 975 anganwadi workers and helpers, all of them leaders of the trade union,” Mr. Sen said.
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