Over 8,000 municipal and engineering department workers on contract participated in demonstrations across the State on the first day of their indefinite protest on Tuesday (December 26).
Launching the statewide protest at Dharna Chowk in Vijayawada, A.P. Municipal Workers and Employees’ Federation general secretary K. Umamaheswara Rao said their main demands included regularisation of services, a salary of ₹18,500 to Clean Andhra Pradesh (CLAP) vehicle drivers and welfare benefits to all workers.
He said the demonstrations, being organised jointly by the labour unions of CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML) parties, were held in 105 out 123 municipalities in the State. “Many contract workers staged novel protests using broom sticks,” he said, adding that all the waste, accumulated in the past two days due to festival holiday and Sunday, were lying on roads.
