Uttarakhand Election: Labour Issues Missing from Key Political Parties’ Agenda https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-election-labour-issues-missing-key-political-parties-agenda Mukund Jha04 Feb 2022
No political party is speaking openly on the problems of workers or their demands at a time when major problems like retrenchment, salary cut, non-implementation of wage agreement and lockout sweep the entire state.
Employees of many companies in Pant Nagar and Rudrapur, the major industrial areas of Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand, have been fighting for their rights for many years but their demands are not being considered at all. In many cases, even when a decision has come in favour of workers from the High Court, the company managements have not been implementing them.
string of protests have been going on in this hill state. While the workers of Bhagwati Products (Micromax) have been fighting since December 2018 against illegal gate clousres, as are those in Voltas, Gujarat Ambuja, and Amul Motors. The workers of several companies are fighting against illegal retrenchment and wage settlements.
In Interarch company located in Rudrapur, 32 workers have been retrenched in the last 171 days. These workers are sitting on dharna outside the company gate in protests against their “illegal retrenchment.”