State wide Satyagraha will be held against retrenchment of contract workers

By Sandy Verma On Nov 19, 2024

Lucknow – In the capital Lucknow, the meeting of the provincial executive of Electricity Contract Labor Organization Uttar Pradesh was held under the chairmanship of State President Naval Kishore Saxena at the organization's central office, Hambra Apartment, Narhi. During the meeting, it was decided to hold a one-day Satyagraha in every district of the state on 3 December 2024 to protest against the state-wide retrenchment of contractual workers. In the meeting, the speakers protested against the massive retrenchment of contract workers in various districts of the state. Also, anger was expressed over the non-implementation of the agreements made by the organization with the management regarding the demands of the contract workers. .

Patron of the organization and senior labor leader RS Rai demanded a salary of Rs 22,000 to the workers employed through outsourcing and Rs 25,000 to the linemen, SSOs and computer operators. Despite not participating in the strike of last March, he walked out. Criticized the contract workers for not being taken back to work and protested against the contract workers who had been working for years being retrenched and rendered unemployed despite the increased work.

R.S. Rai demanded the recruitment of contract workers in proportion to the electricity consumers and taking back the retrenched contract workers to work. He also said that the contract workers working on a salary of nine to ten thousand rupees should be given the post of assistant. Mobile should be provided by the department for billing work. He demanded that the service period of contract employees should be increased to 60 years like the regular employees, the contract employees working for more than 5 years should be adjusted on regular vacant posts and rules should be made for the contract employees.

In the meeting, State President of Electrical Labor Organization Vimal Chandra Pandey, Vice President Jitendra Kumar, Organization Minister Rajiv Ranjan Rai, Production President Satish Tiwari, State In-charge of Contract Organization Punit Rai, General Secretary Bhola Singh Kushwaha, Vinod Srivastava, Shiv Ratan, Guddu Mishra, Ashok Rai were present. , Sunil Goswami, Deepak Srivastava, Munish Pal, Arvind Kumar, Naresh Pal, Rajesh Kumar, Dhananjay Rajbhar, Ramdulare Gupta, Abhimanyu Yadav, Ramjit Mishra, Chandraprakash Pandey, Neeraj Pandey, Raju Ambedkar, Priyanshu, Ravindra Patel, Raji Singh, etc. People were present.