Chandigarh: A number of trade unions including Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) and All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) today decided to protest against chief minister Parkash Singh Badal from January one demanding revision of monthly wages for labourers in the state.
CITU vice-president Raghunath Singh told PTI that the activists of trade union have decided to show black flags to Badal wherever he visits from January one onwards. "The wage revision must be implemented by the government without further delay," he said adding the chief minister had announced four months back that the minimum monthly wages for labour would be increased from Rs 2,620 to Rs 3,200.
"There are about 50 lakh workers in the unroganised sector, including industrial and farm labour...their wages have not been revised for the past eight years," he said. Singh said that as per the Minimum Wages Act, it needed to be amended every five years. However, the Punjab government revised wages way back 2000,he added. A notification on the revision of minimum wages is still awaiting the final nod from the chief minister s office, he said.
