Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has asked trade unions to correct it’s unhealthy practices to ensure that the State’s interests are not affected.
Mr. Vijayan, who is also a Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], came down on the wrong positions adopted by the trade unions while presenting the ‘Nava Keralam’ vision document at the delegates’ meeting of the State party conference here.
Referring to the incidents related to the high-handedness by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) resulting in closure of business ventures, Mr. Vijayan said the trade unions were continuing with such unhealthy practices despite realising that they were wrong. They need to end such tendencies as it would affect the image of the State as an investment-friendly destination, he said.