Public service workers across India to strike tomorrow

A joint coalition of unions, including PSI affiliates, are calling on workers to mobilize on 26 November and established a set of demands including monthly cash transfers for poor households, free food rations, withdrawal of anti-farmer laws and anti-labour codes, an end to privatisation of public services and an end to the corporatization of public sector manufacturing facilities and service institutions like railways and ports

Workers throughout India, including PSI affiliates, are taking part in a series of actions and a national strike on the 26th of November.

Workers delivering public services in India have worked tirelessly to stop the spread of the pandemic, often without adequate PPE and others have lost jobs and livelihoods. Yet instead of rewarding workers, the central government has dismantled existing labour laws undermining international labour standards and fundamental principles of rights at work.

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Workers who deliver public services in India are joining a nationwide general strike on November 26, 2020 to demand roll-back of the new labour laws by the Central Government which is an attack on their labour rights. #StopPrivatisation #PublicServices #LabourLaws

Public workers protest India's new Labour Codes

A joint coalition of unions are calling on workers to mobilize on 26 November and established a set of demands including monthly cash transfers for poor households, free food rations, withdrawal of anti-farmer laws and anti-labour codes, an end to privatisation of public services and an end to the corporatization of public sector manufacturing facilities and service institutions like railways and ports.

PSI and the Council of Global Unions expressed solidarity and a commitment to support unions in India in their fight against these unjust laws.

Please show your solidarity and share this video featuring members of PSI's affiliates who explain the role they have played during the pandemic and the response of the government. Also, here you can sign the LabourStart campaign to support the workers' movement in India.