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New Indian Express
2 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
After welfare push, Stalin meets select sanitary staff; labour unions stay away
CHENNAI: A day after the state government announced various welfare schemes for conservancy workers, representatives of a few sanitary workers' associations on Friday met Chief Minister M K Stalin at his residence to thank him. However, major labour unions in the city corporation including CITU-affiliated Red Flag Union, Uzhaippor Urimai Iyakkam, LTUC, and AICCTU, which participated or spearheaded the sanitary workers' protest against privatisation of solid waste management in Royapuram and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar zones — were not part of the delegation. The schemes announced included free breakfast, housing, enhanced insurance cover, special focus on occupational diseases, self-employment support, and education aid for children of the workers. P Srinivasalu, general secretary of Chennai Corporation Red Flag Union, told TNIE, 'We have been seeking an appointment to meet the CM since July to present our demands against privatisation, but got no response. Now, the corporation invited us to thank him, but we did not go as we want to firmly present our demands, not merely join to thank him.'
New Indian Express
26-07-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Row erupts over unloading of panels; CITU leaders step in
KOCHI: A dispute broke out between the proprietors of an interior designing firm and headload workers over the unloading of toughened glass panels at a construction site in Maradu on Friday. The standoff involved Idea House Interiors, which is handling the interior works of a commercial building, and CITU-affiliated headload workers. According to Anto Rafi, a partner of Idea House Interiors, the company is racing to complete the project before the July 31 deadline. The issue began on Tuesday when a truck carrying toughened glass arrived at the site. Anto and his partner Louis Isaac insisted that the glass must be unloaded using proper safety equipment and only by skilled workers.
The Hindu
09-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Nationwide general strike: Coal mining operations hit in SCCL mines; TGSRTC bus services disrupted in Khammam district
Amplifying the voice of the working class, an overwhelming number of coal workers of the State-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) in Telangana stopped work during the one-day nationwide general strike called by ten Central trade unions to protest the Centre's 'anti-labour' policies on Wednesday. About 85% of the total men on rolls during the first shift abstained from work impacting coal production in the SCCL's coal mines across 11 Areas spanning six districts in Telangana's coal belt, sources said. Coal output dropped significantly during the first and second shifts even as the JAC of Singareni trade unions claimed the strike as a resounding success. Workers owing allegiance to the JAC of Singareni trade unions, barring the BMS-affiliated Singareni Coal Mines Karmika Sangh, observed the day-long strike. Formation of human chains, dharnas and rallies marked the protest programmes organized by the JAC of trade unions in Godavarikhani, Mandamarri, Kothagudem and elsewhere in the coal belt. Members of the AITUC-affiliated Singareni Collieries Workers' Union, which is the SCCL's recognized union, the INTUC, the CITU-affiliated Singareni Collieries Employees' Union, Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS) and various other unions took part in different protest programmes. In Khammam district, TGSRTC bus services were crippled by the day-long nationwide strike. Members of the trade unions affiliated to Left parties took out a massive rally in Khammam during the general strike. The demonstrators raised slogans demanding the repeal of the Centre's four labour codes terming them as most detrimental to the interests of the working class. They vowed to defend the hard-won labour rights. CPI (M) Central Committee member Tammineni Veerabhadram, CPI State secretariat member B Hemanth Rao and others led the rally. A tractor rally was organised by the CPI-affiliated Telangana Rythu Sangham in Khammam in support of the general strike. The strike evoked mixed response in the erstwhile Karimnagar and Adilabad districts.
The Hindu
09-07-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Nationwide strike hits coal mining operations in SCCL; demonstrators demand repeal of Centre's four labour codes
Coal mining operations were hit in the coal mines of the State-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) across its 11 areas spanning six districts in Telangana, as the pan-India general strike began on Wednesday morning (July 9, 2025). Ten Central trade unions called for the strike to protest the Centre's 'anti-labour' policies. Workers owing allegiance to the JAC of Singareni trade unions, barring the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) affiliated Singareni Coal Mines Karmika Sangh, struck work in the SCCL's coal mines in the first shift in response to the nationwide strike, according to the trade unions' JAC sources. Formation of human chains, dharnas and rallies marked the protest programmes organized by the JAC of trade unions in Godavarikhani, Mandamarri, Kothagudem and other coals towns in Telangana's coal belt. Members of the AITUC-affiliated Singareni Collieries Workers' Union, which is the SCCL's recognized union, the CITU-affiliated Singareni Collieries Employees' Union, Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS) and various other unions formed a human chain in the coal hub of Godavarikhani in Peddapalli district. The demonstrators raised slogans demanding the repeal of the Centre's four labour codes terming them as most detrimental to the interests of the working class. They vowed to defend the hard-won labour rights. The one-day strike is expected to cause a revenue loss of around ₹76 crore to the coal mining company, SCCL sources said citing the appeal made by the company management to the workers to desist from the general strike as it would adversely impact coal production and dispatches. Meanwhile, the activists of the CPI (M) and its frontal organisations staged a demonstration in front of the bus depot in Bhadrachalam of Bhadradri Kothagudem district in support of the general strike. The demonstrators blocked the movement of buses for some time in the morning as a mark of protest against what they called the Centre's 'anti-labour' policies.
