BWI affiliate BNKMU – Bhawan Nirman Karmkar Majdoor Union (Lucknow) is planning to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day – further plans are to be announced.
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India: More 28 April activities from BWI affiliates
Further details of wide ranging plans for 28 April action from global union federation BWI’s affiliates in India.
NMPS – Nirman Mazdoor Panchayat Sangam (Union of Construction Workers Panchayat) – Delhi – is planning an International Workers’ Memorial Day meeting is planned.
SGEU – Shevaroys’ General Employees Union (Yercaud) An International Workers’ Memorial Day campaign is planned.
AHPWD & IPHCWU – All Himachal PWD & IPH Contractual Workers’ Union (Himachel Pradesh) will hold a rally featuring plays to raise awareness
INCWF – Indian National Cement Workers’ Federation (Mumbai) will be holding a meeting at a cement plant.
TCTU – Tamilnadu Congress Thozhilalar Union (Tamilnadu Congress Workers’ Union) will hold a 28 April awareness meeting for construction workers on the issue of heat stress .
TKTMS – Thamizhaga Kattida Thozhilalargal Madhiya Sangam (Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Central Union) will be holding an International Workers” Memorial Day meeting for construction workers
GFPGFWU – Gujarat Forest Produce Gatherers and Forest Workers’ Union will be issuing “Key Demands”
1. Kendu leaf workers – increment in wages
2.Enrol forestry workers in Board & provide them minimum wages
India: Construction unions to take multiple actions on 28 April – BWI
Global union federation BWI’s affiliated in India have a wide ranging plan for 28 April action.
Karnataka State Construction Workers Central Union (KSCWCU) will hold a district level leaders meeting where they will further the campaign for International Workers’ Memorial Day and hold discussions on heat stress and climate justice.
In Rajasthan state Azad Hind Building Workers Union (AHBWU) will hold an oath taking ceremony. The union will campaign on the safety issues in labour chowks (markets) and in mining. Awareness raising materials developed by BWI and AHBWU on theme of Deadly Dust.
BMS Gujarat will hold “Tripartite dialogue” with a “Half day program with government officials, CSO & TU.”
Construction Labour Union (CLU) will be out campaigning using the BWI posters on the heat stress and deadly dust themes.
Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) affiliate RPKNMS (Rajasthan Patthar Khan Mazdoor Sangh) will also be out campaigning using the BWI posters on the heat stress and deadly dust themes.
Worker members of the unorganised sector workers’ union, Uttar Pradesh Gramin Mazdoor Sangathan (UPGMS), will be making aset of key demands submission to the District Magistrate including:
- Stone quarry workers – Dust & Silicosis issues
- Heat wave protection
- Enrolling inter-State migrant workers from UP in the Rajasthan Silicosis Board
- Construction workers schemes to be started again, which are on hold for a long time in the State
- Increase minimum wage