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26 February 2021
Andhra Pradesh steel workers and youth rally against privatisation
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) workers and supporters held a 24-kilometre protest on February 20 against the Modi government’s plan to privatise the company. The marches went through Dondaparthy, Thatichetlapalem, Kancharapalem, Urvasi, Marripalem, the airport and ended at the steel plant’s main gate at Kurmannapalem. A public meeting, which attracted a huge crowd of supporters holding placards, was held outside the facility.
The march followed a sit-down protest by thousands of workers in Vijayawada on February 8 opposing the Indian government’s approval for 100 percent disinvestment of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), VSP’s corporate entity.
TDF s R Ayyappan, K Gopakumar, R Sasidharan, and K Ajayakumar, and KSTES KL Rajesh, S Ajayakumar, GK Ajith, and TP Vijayan attended the meeting with Prabhakar.
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24-hour token stir by two unions raising various demands
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Workers at the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation’s Kollam depot protesting on Monday raising various demands.
24-hour token stir by two unions raising various demands The services of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will be affected on Tuesday by the 24-hour strike from February 22 midnight by the Indian National Trade Union Congress-affiliated Transport Democratic Federation (TDF) and the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh-affiliated Kerala State Transport Employees Sangh (KSTES), two recognised unions of the corporation.
The TDF and KSTES, in separate statements issued on Monday after a meeting convened by KSRTC Chairman and Managing Director Biju Prabhakar, said the management had not taken a favourable decision on their demands and hence they were going ahead with the strike.