{"id":261770,"date":"2025-03-19T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/central-trade-unions-call-for-a-nationwide-strike-on-may-20\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:41:16","slug":"central-trade-unions-call-for-a-nationwide-strike-on-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/central-trade-unions-call-for-a-nationwide-strike-on-may-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Central trade unions call for a nationwide strike on May 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Central trade unions call for a nationwide strike on May 20\" title=\"Central trade unions call for a nationwide strike on May 20\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"19\">The joint platform of 10-central trade unions, barring the RSS-affiliate Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, have urged the government to scrap the four <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/labour-codes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labour codes<\/a> while calling for a nationwide general strike on May 20, 2025 against \u2018the anti-worker and pro-corporate\u2019 policies of the government. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->A decision to this effect was taken at the national convention of workers held on Tuesday by the joint platform of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/central-trade-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central trade unions<\/a> and independent sectoral federations and associations.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 central trade unions included AITUC, HMS, CITU, INTUC, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe platform of central trade unions and independent sectoral federations and associations adopted a declaration with a call for a two-month long campaign to culminate in a nationwide general strike on May 20, 2025,\u201d the unions said in a joint statement issued after the convention.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the convention upheld its earlier charter of demands formulated by the joint platform of trade unions covering the basic rights to lives and livelihood of the working people of both the organized and unorganized sector and self-employed occupations. <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:2--><br \/>\u201cIn order to pursue struggle to realise these demands, the implementation of Labour Codes must be stalled and decisively defeated through countrywide unitedstruggles of defiance and resistance by the working class both at national level united actions and also through united sectoral resistance,\u201d it said, urging all workers to join the movement and the national strike on May 20, 2025. \u201cThe national convention asserts that the resistance struggle to defeat and scrap the Labour Codes has become central prerequisite in the united struggle of the<\/p>\n<p>working class to achieve their just and legitimate charter of demands for a decent and humane working life and also their right to quality employment,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The other demands of the joint platform of central trade unions include enhancing allocation to the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/employment-guarantee-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employment guarantee scheme<\/a> while increasing the work days from 100 to 200 and scrapping the new pension scheme, among others.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:59--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/central-trade-unions-call-for-a-nationwide-strike-on-may-20\/articleshow\/119167871.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joint platform of 10-central trade unions, barring the RSS-affiliate Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, have urged the government to scrap the four labour codes while calling for a nationwide general strike on May 20, 2025 against \u2018the anti-worker and pro-corporate\u2019 policies of the government. 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