May
Day - 2014
Pledge
to Fight
Against
the Capital’s Onslaught on the Working Class
In
the era of Pro-Corporate Policies of Liberalisation and Globalisation!
May day in Bangalore
AICCTU
organized a colourful and impressive rally on May Day at Bangalore. More than
3000 workers joined the rally making it the biggest in the city on this May Day.
At a time when celebrating May Day has become a routine and ritualistic affair,
thousands of workers participated in the rally with brimming hope and
enthusiasm as a part of their ongoing struggle against managements and to
elevate it to the struggle against the onslaught of the capital.
The
composition of the rally itself was quite encouraging with a wide spectrum of most
downtrodden and exploited sections of working class, right from sanitation
workers to computer operators, representing different sections of the working
class in turbulence. Almost all workers, barring few companies, were contract
workers from various segments of
industries, including central and state public sectors like HAL, NAL, BHEL,
BEML, KSWAN, nurses and hospital assistants from government hospitals, race
course, multinationals and domestic corporate companies like BOSCH, Lafarge, L&T
Komatsu, Prism Cements, Kennametal WIDIA, Stumpp Schuele Somappa Springs Ltd etc.
Hundreds of street vendors also took part in the rally.
Com. Balan, AICCTU State President, called upon workers to intensify the struggle against the onslaught of capital. He emphasised the need to organize the workers of all unorganized sectors and also the unorganised in organised sectors, including contract workers. Com. Bharadwaj, AICCTU State General Secretary, Com. Appanna, State Secretary, Javaraiah, AIALA State President, Prasad, AISA State Convenor, Mohan Kumar, DCM of AICCTU, Srinivas of HAL, Comrades Vinay, Rangaswamy and Babu, leaders of street vendors organization from different areas of Bangalore, Keshav Murthy, president of the union of computer operators of Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN), Anjanamma, one of the leaders of municipal workers addressed the gathering among others. Com. Clifton D’ Rozario, Karnataka High Court advocate and a social activist for more than a decade, who has dedicated his life for the peoples cause, was declared as Karnataka State Organising Secretary of AICCTU.
Com. Shankar, All India Vice President of AICCTU, criticized the government for its pro-corporate policies, elaborated upon the demands of the rally and called upon workers to raise the level of trade union struggles to political level.
Contract workers of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) organized an impressive gate meeting in the early hours of May Day. Com. Balan called upon workers to intensify the struggle demanding wages declared by the central government as injustice is meted to the workers of BEML, a central government undertaking, while their counterparts in other public sector companies were getting central wages. Com. Clifton, State Organising Secretary of AICCTU, stressed upon the social role of workers. Com. Maithreyi Krishnan, High Court advocate, hoisted the flag and highlighted the issue of same wages and service conditions for same and similar kind of work as per rule 25 (2) (v) (a) of Contract Labour Abolition and Regulation Act (CLARA).
Construction and Quarry Workers Union present in the entire district including KGF, Bangarpet, Kolar, etc., hoisted AICCTU flags in many places in the district. Com. Prabhu, general secretary of the union and other leaders addressed the gathering at flag hoisting programmes in various places.
May day in Mangalore and Manipal
The May Day programmes started with flag hoisting at the RMC Readymix plant of Prism Cements Ltd at Manipal in the early morning. Hundreds of workers marched from the LPG plant of Bharat Petroleum at Baikampady industrial estate, Mangalore and proceeded to RMC in the same industrial estate. Com. Sathish, Mangalore district president, Yashwant, district secretary, Chandru, Vice president, Com. Razak, Joint Secretary and Bharath, Joint Secretary addressed the gathering when the rally culminated in a public meeting at Baikampady Bus Stand. Mangalore office of AICCTU was also inaugurated on May Day.
May Day in Sakleshpur, Hassan
Power workers of AICCTU engaged in generation of electricity under various companies like International Power Corporation Ltd (IPCL), Nagarjuna and Paschim Hydro Energy Pvt Ltd (NHEPL & PHEPL), etc., marched on the streets of Sakleshpur, a prominent town in the Western Ghats, Hassan district, on May Day. The rally commenced after hoisting flags in various power generation companies and culminated in a public meeting. Com. Harish, president of IPCL branch of KGLU, Martin, Secretary, Dayanand, ECM, Prakash, Vice President and Vinay and Yellappa of NHEPL addressed the gathering among others.
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