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Take immediate concrete measures to
control sky rocketing prices of essential commodities; ban speculative trade
in essential commodities; expand and strengthen public distribution system;
no compulsory linkage of Aadhaar to avail services of PDS.
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2.
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Check unemployment through policies
encouraging labour intensive establishments; link financial assistance to
employers with employment generation; fill up all vacant posts in government
departments; lift the ban on recruitment and 3 per cent annual surrender of
government posts.
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3.
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Check outsourcing and
contractorisation of jobs of permanent and perennial nature.
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4.
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Strictly implement
equal wage and benefits to contract workers doing the same job as permanent
workers, as per Supreme Court judgment.
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5.
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Strict implementation
of equal pay for equal work for men and women as per Indian constitution.
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6.
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Fix national minimum wage as per the
recommendations of 15th Indian Labour Conference and Supreme Court judgment
in the Raptakos & Brett case.
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7.
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Assure minimum pension of Rs 6000 per
month and indexed pension to all.
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8.
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Recognise workers employed in different
government schemes, including anganwadi workers and helpers, ASHAs and others
employed in the National Health Mission, midday meal workers, para teachers,
teaching and non teaching staff of National Child Labour Projects, etc as
workers and pay minimum wages, social security benefits including pension etc
to all of them.
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9.
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Immediately revoke ‘Fixed Term
Employment’ which is in violation of the spirit of ILO Recommendation 204
which India has ratified.
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10.
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Stop disinvestment of public sector
undertakings.
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11.
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Revoke the decision to
privatise railways, defence, port and dock, banks, insurance, coal etc.
Immediately revoke decision allowing commercial mining of coal mines.
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12.
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Immediately resolve the issues of the
central government employees related to the recommendations of the 7th Pay
Commission.
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13.
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Scrap NPS and restore the Old Pension
Scheme.
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14.
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Stop anti-worker and pro-employer
amendments to the labour
laws. Ensure strict implementation of the
existing labour laws.
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15.
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Implement paid maternity leave of 26
weeks, maternity benefit and crèche
facilities for women workers.
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16.
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Strict implementation of the Prevention
of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act.
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17.
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Ratify ILO Conventions 87 and 98 on
freedom of association and right to collective bargaining along with the ILO
Convention 189 on domestic workers.
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18.
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Strengthen bipartism and tripartism; no
decision should be taken on any issue related to labour without consensus
through discussion with trade unions/Associations.
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19.
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Cut the subsidies given to the corporates.
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20.
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Minimum support price as per the
recommendations of
Swaminathan Commission recommendations;
strengthen public procurement system.
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21.
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Loan waiver to farmers.
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22.
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Comprehensive legislation covering social
security and working conditions for
agricultural workers.
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23.
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200 days of work under MGNREGA. Enact
similar legislation to cover urban areas. Fix minimum wages not less than minimum
wages of the state.
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24.
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Ensure effective implementation of
Article 51 A of the constitution that calls upon all citizens to
promote harmony, spirit of common brotherhood, diversities and to transcend
religious, linguistic, regional and sectional culture and to denounce
policies derogatory to the dignity of women.
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25.
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Enact legislation to protect couples
opting for inter caste marriages.
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26.
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Ensure strict punishment for all guilty
of rape and other cases of violence
against women.
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27.
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Strict implementation of the SC/ST
Prevention of Atrocities Act.
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28.
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Ensure filling up of all posts reserved
for OBC, SC /STs.
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29.
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Free education to all children up to
Class XII along with technical education.
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30.
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Free health care for all. Strengthen
health infrastructure. Increase government expenditure on health to 5 per
cent of GDP.
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31.
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Right to work as fundamental right by
amending the constitution.
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The country has adequate resources to meet
the above demands. The neoliberal agenda being aggressively pursued by the
Governments has aggravated concentration of wealth in a few hands at the expense
of the workers and peasants who created the wealth of the country. It has
widened disparities to vulgar heights. The struggle against the neoliberal
policies should continue whichever government came to power after the
elections, if it indulged in pursuing the same policies.
The governments are totally insensitive to
the genuine demands of workers, employees & officers. They sought to
further perpetrate the attacks on the working class and all sections of toiling
masses to facilitate amassing of wealth by a few corporates and business
houses. Whichever government comes to power should know that the working class
will not tolerate continuation of the neoliberal regime any more and pro-people
and pro-worker policies should be implemented.
Let’s continue the fight for alternative
policies.
