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Construction workers stage demonstration with begging bowls
United: Construction Workers Association staging a demonstration in front of the Krishnagiri Collectorate on Monday. –
KRISHNAGIRI: Construction workers staged a demonstration in front of the District Collectorate here with begging bowls on Monday.
Their demands included a central law to ensure job security for unorganised labourers, regulation of wages for various labourers in the sector, inclusion of unorganised labourers under the purview of Employees State Insurance Corporation, granting of a minimum pension of Rs. 2,000 and implementation of Union Government’s various labour welfare measures through trade unions.
About 150 members, including 80 women of the Construction Workers Association, participated in the demonstration.
The association is planning a demonstration in Chennai on December 9.
A demonstration will be staged before Parliament on December 10, 11 and 12.
The association’s district secretary, K.M. Arumugam, presided. Association’s All India Additional Secretary R. Geethammal spoke.
District treasurer G.A. Muthu welcomed the gathering.
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