The Kalaburagi unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) will organise a conference to mark World Labour Day on May 1 to discuss the failure of the Union government to protect farmers’ interests and labour rights.
CITU district president Shanta Ghanti and district secretary M.B. Sajjan, addressing presspersons on Sunday, said that the conference would focus on the social and economic conditions of workers and the need for social security. Mr. Sajjan opposed the Union government’s move to increase the Foreign Direct Investment cap from 26 per cent to 49 per cent in the insurance sector and the passing of the Land Acquisition Bill. The Union government had failed to implement social welfare schemes, he added.
He criticised the Union government for its attempt to weaken the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and for privatising the Integrated Child Development Scheme.
