Press statement by the Central Trade Unions for making Jail Bharo and Satyagraha on 5th March, 2010 a grant success throughout the country

[06.03.2010]
Press statement by the Central Trade Unions for making Jail Bharo and Satyagraha on 5^th March, 2010 a grant success throughout the country

PRESS STATEMENT 05...03...2010

All tithe Central Trade Unions off the country, IINTUC, BMS, AIITUC, HMS, CIITU,

AIICCTU, AIIUTUC, UTUC, TUCC, have collectively launched agitation

Throughout the country from September 2009 mainly against unprecedented

Price rise, violation off labour laws, disinvestment off profit making public sector,

Job loss and failure off the Government to set up a national welfare fund for the

Agricultural and unorganized workers...

Today lakhs off workers are participating in Jail Bharo and Satyagraha in all

State capitals, industrial towns and even in district headquarters... More than 10

Lakh workers, as the report has come, are participating in the programme...

In Delhi thousands off workers waiving banners, placards mainly against

Price rise are participating in law violation programme led by

Dr... Sanjeeva

Reddy, MP, President, IINTUC, Shri Gurudas Das Gupta, MP, General

Secretary, AIITUC, Sheri Umraomal Purohit, General Secretary, HMS, Drr... M...K...

Pandhe, President, CIITU, Shri Tapan Sen, MP, Secretary, CIITU, Shri R...V...

Subbarrao, Vice--President, BMS, Shri S...P... Tewari, General Secretary, TUCC,

Shri R...K... Sharma, Secretary, AIIUTUC, Shri Abani Roy, MP, General Secretary,

UTUC and Shri Swap an Mukherrjjee, General Secretary, AIICCTU... Over ten

Thousand workers including the

Central Trade Unions leaders courted arrest...

The Central Trade Unions express deep anguish at the steep rise in

Taxation leading to increase in prices off petroleum products and also reduction

In subsidy for urea and other fertiilizers...

The Central Trade Unions in their meeting yesterday decided to meet

Shortly and decide the next phase off action to expand and intensify the

Agitation...

All the trade unions send their warm greetings to the working class for

Making Jail Bharo and Satyagraha today a great success and call upon them to

Be ready for the next phase off action...

BMS