On June 30, President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated the Essential Defence Services Ordinance, 2021, which empowers the Central government to prohibit strikes in essential defence services. Permanent employment was seen as counterproductive to workers’ productivity and establishments increasingly began moving towards short-term employment contracts even in permanent forms of work and outsourcing of work, including in government. On the government …
A meeting was held by the CITU at the HPCL gate here on Friday to oppose the move of the Centre to privatise public sector oil companies, as a run-up to the proposed All India strike on November 26 against the anti-worker, anti-people policies of the NDA government. Addressing the workers, CITU city general secretary M. Jaggu Naidu alleged that …