Labourers seek 7th pay commission benefits

Aurangabad: Local labourers and porters will join the nation-wide strike call given by various unions on September 2 to demand protection to the workers belonging to the unorganized sector under the 7th pay commission.
"The workers will also take out a protest from Kranti Chowk to register their demands seeking parity with the government staff who got benefits of 7th pay commission," said Devidias Kirtishahi, general secretary of the Marathwada Labour Union that would lead the morcha.
"The central government is all out to support industrialists and capitalists by making changes in the labour laws to protect their interests. The laws that once protected the rights of the workers are being changed. If this allowed to be continued, the workers would have no voice and would have to live their lives like slaves," he said.
Kirtishahi added that class 4 employees of the government now get higher wages than a labourer who works many times more than a peon.