Bharat Bandh by trade unions may not affect public transport in Mumbai

As ten central trade unions and Shiv Sena affiliated Bhartiya Kamgar Sena BKS in Maharashtra will be observing a nationwide strike on Wednesday railway employees are giving it back to the Railway Ministry by organising a Rail Bachao Sangoshti to counter the Rail Parivartan Sangoshti that had been earlier organised by railway ministry to get innovative ideas on improvement of Indian RailwaysIt is important to note that the Shiv Senabacked government is now ruling Maharashtra Railway train services and airport operations may get affected if the strike takes an aggressive turn Taxi and autorickshaws in Mumbai however said that they will function as normalElaborating on the same officials said that the suburban trains would run through and in case of extremities it is the outstation trains that are likely to be affectedThe strike has been called to protest against the Central governments antilabour and antipeople policies About 60 organisations of students and elected officebearers of some universities have also decided to join the strike with an agenda to raise voice against increased fee structure and commercialization of educationAs many as 12 airports are already sold out to private hands 100 percent sale of Air India is already decided the decision to sell BPCL taken BSNLMTNL merger announced and 93600 telecom workers already thrown out of jobs under the garb of VRS voluntary retirement scheme a note addedThe unions are also against privatisation in railways corporatisation of 49 defence production units and forced merger of banks In Mumbai from 11 am to 4 pm massive rallies of workers from various undertakings will be taken out with demonstrations at the airport Bharamata Lalbaug Andheri west Panvel Navi Mumbai and Bhandup westOfficial note of the strikeVishwas Utagi Coconvenor TUJAC Maharashtra gave an official statement which read Ten central trade unions and Bhartiya Kamgar Sena in Maharashtra state will be observing nationwide strike on January 8 2020 Almost 25 crore people will participate in the strike to protest against the Central governments anti labour and anti people policies Trade unions INTUC AITUC HMS CITU AIUTUC TUCC SEWA AICCTU LPF UTUC and CentralState Government employees along with various sectoral independent federations and associations had adopted a declaration in September last year to go on a nationwide strike on January 8 2020 We expect the participation of not less than 25 crores of working people in the forthcoming strike to be followed by many more actions seeking reversal of the antiworker policies of the central governmentThe ministry of labour has failed to assure any of the demands of workers which had called a meeting on January 2 2020 The attitude of the government is that of contempt towards labour as we construe from its policies and actions About 60 organisations of students and elected officebearers of some universities have also decided to join the strike with an agenda to raise voice against increased fee structure and commercialization of education We the unions also express displeasure over no Indian Labour Conference being held since July 2015 the codification of labour laws and privatisation of PSUsAs many as 12 airports are already sold out to private hands 100 percent sale of Air India is already decided decision to sell BPCL taken BSNLMTNL merger announced and 93600 telecom workers already thrown out of jobs under the garb of VRS voluntary retirement scheme The unions are also against privatisation in railways corporatisation of 49 defence production units and forced merger of banks Joint platform of more than 175 farmers and agricultural workers unions will extend its support to workers demands and observe January 8 as Gramin Bharat Bandh along with their charter of demandsAll District Committees will coordinate massive rallies of workers and peasants at district and taluka places In Mumbai from 11 am to 4 pm massive rallies of workers from NTUI HMS Railway workers Govt employees Bank insurance employees and massive participation of Anganwadi women Asha workers Mathadi workers will be held under the leadership of TUJAC At the airport Bhartiya Kamgar Sena will hold a massive rallyAt Bharat Mata Lalbag INTUC will hold dharna for Textile workers At Andheri West AITUC CITU will join for massive demonstrations At Panvel and New Mumbai INTUC CITU AITUC will hold demonstrations At Bhandup West CITU and others will hold Dharna Demonstrations will take place throughout Mumbai amp Thane at various placesUnless Narendra Modi government reverses the policy of destruction and selling of Public Sector institutions and unless job loss is not halted and more jobs are not created the unrest in Indian workers can not be silencedDue to antipeople policies of Central Govt the political parties like Shivsena NCP Congress CPI CPM PWP Nav Nirman Sena Vanchit Aghadi Janata Dal S have supported this historic site which may be the biggestand largest participative strikeCatch 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