Monday, October 14, 2019

WORKERS SHALL PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AGAINST EXPLOITATION THROUGH A STRONG UNITED STRUGGLE.



WORKERS SHALL PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AGAINST EXPLOITATION                                                          
THROUGH A STRONG UNITED STRUGGLE.                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

  The B.J.P. coming in to power with thumping majority in the recent general elections has immediately announced its priorities in the first one hundred days of its rule. They are:  a) to hasten the process of labor laws codification b) to hasten land acquisition reform c) dismantling and privatizing public sector units and industry.                                                                                                                                                                                                             These priorities announced by the BJP led NDA government are in accordance with the wish lists presented by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) the representative of big capital and industries and most of the foreign and Indian stock-market brokerages like Goldman sachs of USA, Morgan standy of U.S.A, U.B.S, Credit Suisse, Elara capital, Edelweiss etc.

 The government claims that it has taken up these priorities in order to attract $ 100 billion worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) annually and technology transfer. It also claims that it intends to finish its, unfinished agenda to bring India in to the top 50 in the world bank's’ ease of doing business rankings. The government emphasizes that it could bring out economic growth by immediately reforming the labor-laws and land acquisition laws being demanded by the big capital.

 Today the back-bone economic sector for India, the agricultural sector is thrown in to deep crisis. Rural distress and poverty have reached to the severest limits. During the period of implementation of neo-liberal economic policies dictated by the imperialist globalisation more than 2,00,000 farmers have committed suicides due to unviable farming under the conditions created by market-forces. Crores of small and petty farmers have been reduced in to marginal unskilled daily manual labourers and are forced to migrate to cities after seeking livelihoods. On the other hand unemployment has reached a 45 year high, leaving more of the educated you in unemployment. Job creation in the recent years has been in dire situation even according to the labour force survey of the government made public in May 2019. The worker participation rate has also declines considerably in this decade.

 Instead of addressing this dire situation being suffered by majority of people of our country the B.J.P. rulers chose to fulfil the wishes of the big-capital and speculative stock-market brokerages. Thus they come out in their true colours of anti-worker, anti-people class nature of exploiting classes.

 The government has already made preparations to ‘reform’ the existing 44 labour laws that provide protection to the rights of workers. With the B.J.P. government is either doing away with the rights of workers or is reframing them to the total advantage of the big-capital industry.

 Presently the government is readied to introduced a national minimum wage code bill and code on occupational safety health and working conditions bill in the coming parliamentary sessions and made them in to laws.

 On the pretext of a national minimum wage code bill, the B.J.P. government is introducing a so-called universal minimum wage system recommended by the imperialist financial organisation World Bank. This universal minimum wage is not based on the scientific basis of present day requirements of a worker of our country, but on improper and incorrect proposals of those ‘experts’ of W.B. with the support of the so-called experts of I.L.O., in accordance and need of the principles dictated by neoliberal economics of imperialist globalisation. This fixation of this nation-wide minimum wages will be far less than the present day existing minimum wages fixed by the governments. In the name of backward regions the minimum wage will be fixed at a lowest rate of many other regions. On the other hand the rights of workers to get bonus payments, O.T. entitlement of double pay and other entitlements of various allowances will be done away or considerably reduced. Thus this wage code is mooted to the benefit of industrialists to reduce their costs on the expenditure of wages and other allowances payable to workers.

 The new code bill on occupational safety, health and working conditions too is not intended to improve the working conditions, safety and safe health conditions to workers. But it is intended to benefit the industrial managements towards reducing their expenditure on these concerns. It is imposing limitations on payments of compensation due to deaths and disablement in industrial workplace accidents at a more lower level than from the present entitlements of compensation under workmen’s compensation act. It also limits the payment of wages during sick periods of occupational ill-health and sickness. We have been witnessing numerous workplace accidents where a considerable number of workers are being killed without any safety protection or being disabled in workplace accidents and the managements are blatantly evading of paying compensations to the deceased or disabled workers in the workplace accidents unwilling to pay compensation according to government's attack of abolishing the legal rights of workers of this country.

 All the trade unions keeping away from their differences of political, regional, religious and other affiliations and sentiments must unite to fight relentlessly against the anti-worker policies of the government.

 With the exclusive principle of strong unity and struggle against anti-working class policies and to protect the legal rights of working-class each and every worker shall prepare to fight and join in the struggle against the attacks on their legal rights.

 A strong workers movement against this onslaught of workers’ rights in the need of the hour. Workers themselves have to fight for their rights.
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