Cutting across party lines, the workers have vowed to step up struggles demanding that the new Labour codes brought out by the BJP-led government at the Centre be scrapped immediately.
Huge processions were taken out by the members of various trade unions, which included Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), and Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), to mark the International Workers’ Day on Sunday.
They raised slogans against the new codes – the Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Social Security Code, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code – which they alleged had taken away the workers’ rights achieved through long-drawn struggles.
