As the Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITI) workers’ protest in Bengaluru entered its 86th day, 800 people gathered for a convention on Thursday organised by farmers, Dalit and workers’ organisations opppsite the ITI corporate office in K.R. Puram.
Clifton D’ Rozario, All-India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), spoke on the need to highlight the injustice of the contract system “which is nothing but modern day slavery”. He cautioned workers not to succumb to communal hatred which he said only serves to undermine the Constitution and workers’ unity.
Workers who are protesting were barred from entering ITI premises in December 2021 after they started unionising to demand pending payments and statutory rights. They claim that they were not aware they had been hired on contract.
