In an extraordinary intervention, union bosses have publicly attacked the CFMEU’s former national secretary and called for him to get the boot in internal elections.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
4 June 2021
India: Punjab state administration workers strike
Striking workers from the Punjab State District Commissioner’s (DC) Office in Fatehgarh Sahib demonstrated outside the DC Office building on May 28 over several long outstanding demands. They chanted slogans denouncing the revenue minister and the chief minister and burnt an effigy. The workers had been on casual leave since May 24 in support of their demands.
The DC Office Employees Union is demanding implementation of the 6th Pay Commission recommendations, payment of outstanding dearness allowances, promotions and restoration of the previous pension system. Workers said 55 percent of positions in the DC offices were vacant but management had made no move to recruit workers.
Workers at Downer Group’s Pakenham East Rail Depot and Stabling Yard, who have been on strike for secure jobs, are yet to settle a new enterprise agreement. Sue Bolton reports.