Trade unions across the country on Monday started a two-day strike and demonstrations against the government’s policies, with union leaders claiming that public sector bank, insurance, transport, telecom, coal, steel, oil and postal services were affected.
A joint platform of 10 Central trade unions had called for the “Bharat Bandh” to protest against what it termed the government’s “anti-worker” policies.
In a statement, one of the unions, the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), said: “The workers and employees in banks and insurance companies did not enter their workplaces anywhere in India. The coal, steel, post, oil, copper and telecom sector workers struck from the morning of March 28. Electricity workers went on strike in all the states, including in Maharashtra, where the government had invoked ESMA. The Kerala State unions began strike action from midnight of March 27-March 28 itself.”
