Essential services are likely to be impacted on Wednesday with 10 central trade unions going ahead with a one-day nationwide strike to protest against changes in labour laws. The BJP-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and National Front of Indian Trade Unions have pulled out.
These ten unions claim a combined membership of 15 crore workers in public as well as private sector enterprises, including banks and insurance companies and they have decided to go ahead with the strike after their talks with a group of senior ministers earlier this month failed to yield desired results.
Union leaders said the strike will affect the functioning of essential services like transport and supply of power, gas and oil, even as BMS claimed that power, oil and gas supplies will not be affected as a large number of public sector workers in these areas would not participate in the industrial action.
As many as 12 central trade unions had given this strike call over a 12-points charter of demands, including withdrawal of the proposed anti-worker amendments in labour laws and stopping the disinvestment and privatisation of PSUs.
(With inputs from PTI)
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