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WORKERS SHALL PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AGAINST
EXPLIOTATION THROUGH A STRONG, UNITED STRUGGLE!
The B.J.P. coming in to power
with thumping majority in the recent
general elections has immediately
announced its priorities in the first
one hundred days of its rule. They
are a) to hasten the process of
labour laws codification b) to
hasten land acquision reform c)
dismantiling and privatising public
sector units & industry.
These priorities announced by
the BJP led NDA government are
in accordance with the wish-lists
presented by the Confederation of
Indian
Industry
(CII)
the
representative of big capital and
industries and most of the foreign
and
Indian
stock-market
brokerages like Goldman sachs of
USA, Morgan standy of U.S.A,
U.B.S, Credit Suisse, Elara capital,
Edelweiss etc.
The government claims that it
has taken up these priorities in
order to attract $ 100 billion worth
of foreign direct investment (FDI)
annually and technology transfer.
It also claims that it intends to finish
its, unfinished agenda to bring India
in to the top 50 in the world banks’
ease of doing business rankings.
The government emphasises that
it could bring out economic growth
by immediately reforming the
labour-laws and land acquisition
laws being demanded by the big
capital.
Today
the
back-bone
economic sector for India, the
agricultural sector is thrown in to
deep crisis. Rural distress and
poverty have reached to the
severest limits. During the period
of implementation of neo-liberal
economic policies dictated by the
imperialist globalisation more than
2,00,000 farmers have committed
suicides due to unviable farming
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under the conditions created by
market-forces. Crores of small and
petty farmers have been reduced
in to marginal unskilled dialy
manual labourers and are forced
to migrate to cities afar seeking
livelihoods. On the other hand
unemployment has reached a 45
year high, leaving more of the
educated you in unemployment.
Job creation in the recent years
has been in dire situation even
according to the labour force
survey of the government mode
public in May 2019. The worker
participation rate has also declines
considerably in this decade.
Instead of addressing this dire
situation being suffered by majority
of people of our country the B.J.P.
rulers chose to fulfil the wishes of
the big-capital and speculative
stock-market brokerages. Thus
they come out in their true colours
of anti-worker, anti-people class
nature of exploiting classes.
The government has already
made preparations to ‘reform’ the
existing 44 labour laws that provide
protection to the rights of workers.
With the B.J.P. government is either
doing away with the rights of
workers or is reframing them to the
total advantage of the big-capital
industry.
Presently the government is
readied to introduced a national
minimum wage code bill and code
on occupational safety health and
working conditions bill in the coming
parliamentary sessions and made
them in to laws.
On the pretext of a national
minimum wage code bill, the B.J.P.
government is introducing a so-
called universal minimum wage
system recommended by the
imperialist financial organisation
W orld Bank. This universal
minimum wage is not based on the
scientific basis of present day
requirements of a worker of our
country, but on improper and
incorrect proposals of those
‘experts’ of W.B. with the support
of the so-called experts of I.L.O.,
in accordance and need of the
principles dictated by neo-liberal
economics
of
imperialist
globalisation. This fixation of this
nation-wide minimum wages will be
far less than the present day
existing minimum wages fixed by
the governments. In the name of
backward regions the minimum
wage will be fixed at a lowest rate
of many other regions. On the
other hand the rights of workers to
get bonus payments, O.T.
entitlement of double pay and other
entitlements of various allowances
will be done away or considerably
reduced. Thus this wage code is
mooted to the benefit of
industrialists to reduce their costs
on the expenditure of wages and
other allowances payable to
workers.
The new code bill on
occupational safety, health and
working conditions too is not
intented to improve the working
conditions, safety and safe health
conditions to workers. But it is
intended to benefit the industrial
managements towards reducing
their expenditure on these
concerns. It is imposing limitations
on payments of compensation due
to deaths and disablement in
industrial work place accidents at
a more lower level than from the
present
entitlements
of
compensation under workman’s
compensation act. It also limits the
payment of wages during sick
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