?Global scenario is anti-labour?

NORTH CENTRAL Zone Insurance Employees? Federation national president Rathin Chakaravarti on Sunday said the global scenario was not in favour of labourers. The balance of power was tilting towards imperialism and India could not remain unaffected by it, he added.

NORTH CENTRAL Zone Insurance Employees’ Federation national president Rathin Chakaravarti on Sunday said the global scenario was not in favour of labourers.
The balance of power was tilting towards imperialism and India could not remain unaffected by it, he added.

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Chakravarti was speaking as the chief guest at the 12th annual conference of the Gorakhpur Division Insurance Employees’ Union at Chitragupta temple.
He also said a Supreme Court decision against strikes had boosted the morale of the anti-labour class. He exhorted the participants to launch a long-term battle against such forces and said Parliament was adopting an anti-labour attitude.

We have to give a befitting reply to these forces to safeguard our genuine rights.” Chakravarti said going on strike was virtually a fundamental right of workers. It was a powerful medium to check harassment by industrialists, he added. He said it was due to a struggle that insurance employees had achieved a better pay scale.

Federation secretary Ashok Tiwari said LIC was the top insurance company, due to its credibility and hard work put in by the employees.

He said the LIC came into existence after merger of 245 companies in 1956. Criticising the UPA Government’s economic policies, Tiwari said the LIC was earning profits, but invitation to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the insurance sector was highly condemnable.

He said though the Airports Authority of India was earning profits, the government was privatising airports. Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary Purushottam Tripathi, postal employees’ union president RS Chand and many other employees’ union office-bearers condemned the policies of privatisation of profit- making companies.