Bharat Bandh: Schools and colleges shut in Bengaluru

September 02, 2016 09:13

Bharat Bandh: Schools and colleges in Bengaluru urban district are closed today as a precautionary measure.

The trade unions have called for a nationwide strike today demanding better wages and against Govt's changes in labour laws

The unions have given a call for the strike to protest against the "anti-people, anti-national and anti-worker" policies of the NDA government at the Centre. They believe that the government is indifferent to the workers demands and effecting anti-worker changes in labour laws.

After an emergency meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and Power Minister Piyush Goyal, an appeal was made to the unions to call off their strike. Jaitley also vouched that the government will release state employees' bonuses for the last two years, and increase minimum wages for unskilled labourers to persuade the Unions to cancel the strike.

But the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) rejected the government's appeals to call off the strike, saying it failed to address their demands.

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