GURUGRAM: The Municial Corporation Gurgaon (MCG) sanitation workers started a two-day strike here on Wednesday demanding regularisation of all the workers and alleging harassment by the contractors. The protesting workers said that they will sit on an indefinite strike if their demands are not met. The workers said that they won’t clean the roads, public places across the city and sewer cleaning won’t be done till the strike continues. The protest started at the old MCG office and then the workers marched across the city. “Our primary demands are that the contractual system of employment should be done away with, all the workers should be regularised and the old pension scheme for workers should be resumed on the lines of other states like Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Despite getting an assurance from the Haryana chief minister that our long-pending demands will be met, no promise has been fulfilled yet, forcing us to sit on this strike, leaving all the work,” said Ram Singh, president, Nagar Palika Karmachari Sangh, Gurugram. The workers, including sanitation workers and sewermen, protested under the Nagar Palika Karmachari Sangh, Haryana. The workers also said that the state government is responsible for the death of workers who die while cleaning sewers since they said that the contractors outsourced by the government are exploiting sanitation workers.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/gurugram-mcg-sanitation-workers-go-on-strike/articleshow/94964604.cms
