Raising a unified voice against the Centre’s “anti-worker” policies, members of various trade unions staged sit-in demonstrations at multiple locations in the State’s coal belt region as the 48-hour nationwide strike called by the joint forum of central trade unions began this morning.
Members of the Singareni Collieries Workers’ Union (SCWU), affiliated to the AITUC, staged a demonstration in front of the RK-7 underground coal mine in Srirampur area of Mancherial district this morning.
Slogans denouncing the Centre’s attempts to auction the four coal blocks in Telangana for commercial mining rent the air. The SCWU general secretary V Seetharamaiah led the demonstration.
