SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, March 23: The LIC Employees’ Federation Hazaribagh Division today held a massive demonstration in Dhanbad on Wednesday and announced its support to the two-day nationwide strike on March 28-29 called by 10 central trade unions against the wrong policy of the union government.
The employees of Dhanbad district-based LIC branches 1,2,3 and 4 took out procession under branch -1 secretary Shubham Kumar and declared solidarity with agitating central trade unions in nationwide strike and called for making it a success.
Vice-president of Hazaribagh division employees federation Hemant Mishra said that LIC employees are compelled to join strike call in protest against proposed IPO in LIC. Moreover, the employees federation demands the abolition of the new pension scheme and implementation of the 1995 old pension system for all employees, periodic upgradation of pension and regular appointment on posts of 3rd and 4th-grade employees in the organization.
Joint secretary Neeraj Kumar on the occasion called upon all the employees to make it successful in protest against the anti-labour policy of the union government.
Barring the BJP affiliated Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), all the central trade unions of the country including INTUC, CITU, AITUC, HMS have called a two-day nationwide strike on March 28-29 against anti-farmer, anti-labour, wrong economic policy, privatization of public sectors, price hike and against growing unemployment.
