Power employees of the state will boycott work on Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike call given by trade unions.
Convener of Power Employees’ Joint Action Committee Shailendra Dube said in Lucknow that 10 central trade unions and several affiliates would join the strike which would affect services across the country. He said that more than 20 crore workers from all sectors, including banking, coal, oil, defence, public sector enterprises and transport, would join the general strike to oppose the government’s “anti-people and anti-worker policies”.
“We will not let the government forget workers’ issues, their jobs and livelihood. In the last six years, a ministerial group created to negotiate with trade unions on workers’ issues has only met them once, in 2015,” Dube said.
