Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (KM/SM)

Mangalore, Jul 10: Dakshina Kannada district Pourakarmika’s and Class IV Employees’ Union of Mangalore urged the government to consider their demands by Wednesday July 25.

Speaking at a press conference here on Monday July 9, B Peddanna, working president of Karnataka State Powra Karmikara Maha Union said that government has been neglecting them for long. “We serve the citizens risking our own lives, yet we have been totally neglected and allowed to live on edges,” he added.

He further said that a representative protest rally will be staged on Wednesday July 11, if the government does not consider their demands seriously and fails to fulfill them. 

The union would not be responsible to any inconvenience caused owing o the strike as the work by the civic workers would completely come to a halt by Wednesday July 25, he alleged.

The procedure of appointing the workers on contract basis should be discontinued as per the Labour Act. There should be uniform scale of payment and payment should be done through banks with I P F, he added.

He further said that if any worker dies at time of his duty, then his job should be given to any one of his family member. Apart from this his family should also be given compensation of Rs 5 lac.

C&R rule should be amended and one civic worker should be appointed for every 500 people. Residential schools should be opened for the children of civic workers, he said.

Civic workers should be considered like any other state government employees, the union urged.

V Shridar state honorary president, Gubbi Hanumanthappa general president, Suresh Kumar district president and Monappa president of Mangalore district civic workers were present at the press conference.