UTUC urges for making employement a constitutional right

Kolkata, Dec 14 (UNI) SUCI's labour wing United Trade Union Centre (UTUC) today said the general strike should include providing constitutional right to employment so long dropped by the sponsoring committee.

The UTUC also made demands for scraping the contributory new pension scheme for the government employees.

In a statement here, All India UTUC general secretary Sankar Saha said one day general strike cannot be sufficient to reverse the UPA government's anti-labour policies and urged upon the working people to forge unity for prolonged and protracted movement to achieve the demands.

"We are congratulating the people for participating in the today's general strike," Mr Saha said.

He claimed that barring a few, IT sector's attendance was below 50 per cent today.

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