Port & dock workers to participate in general strike on Feb 12
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Visakhapatnam: National Coordination Committee (NCC) of the Major Port & Dock Workers Federation has unanimously given a call to intensify activities at all major ports across the country to ensure the grand success of the February 12 all India general strike a grand succes.
The federation said it aims at defeating the four labour codes. The NCC at the meeting held here recently reviewed the prevailing socio-economic and political situation in the country and strongly condemned the aggressive attacks on the working class carried out to appease corporate monopolies by diluting hard-earned rights and privileges of workers. The federation stated that the four labour codes are designed to dismantle collective bargaining, freedom of association, and trade union rights, thereby weakening the organised working class.
The NCC also expressed serious concern over the lethargic and lukewarm attitude of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, the Indian Ports Association (IPA), and major port authorities regarding the non implementation of various clauses of statutory settlements, including those concluded earlier and the latest settlement dated September 27, 2024.
Federation national leader T Narendra Rao said on Monday that IPA has caused inordinate delay in signing the Productivity Linked Reward (PLR) settlement, despite an MoU being arrived at between the major port authorities and the National Federations of Port & Dock Workers on June 15, 2023. This unjustified delay has resulted in the denial of legitimate bonus payments to port & dock workers and the pensioners who retired between these periods for the year 2020–21 to 2025–26, he alleged. The delay in implementing various settlements has adversely affected the interests of thousands of port & dock workers and lakhs of pensioners across major ports in the ountry. Simultaneously, the Union Government has taken several unilateral policy initiatives detrimental to the very survival of major ports and the workforce in the port & dock industry, Rao alleged.
