: Bengaluru: ITI Ltd. Refuses Employment to Over 130 Workers For Unionizing #IndiaNEWSAll #Economy Workers of Bengaluru’s premier factory ITI near KR Puram had to face an early morning shock on 1st

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Bengaluru: ITI Ltd. Refuses Employment to Over 130 Workers For Unionizing #IndiaNEWSAll #Economy
Workers of Bengaluru’s premier factory ITI near KR Puram had to face an early morning shock on 1st December 2021. M/s ITI Ltd. has unilaterally stopped all the workers from 01. 12. 2021 at 8 AM in the morning and has refused to permit them to undertake their works.
M/s ITI Ltd. Falls directly under the Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communication, Government of India. While M/s ITI claims that a new contractor has been employed, it has not provided any reason to state as to why these workers who have worked for 5-30 years are being refused employment.
Protests at ITI Ltd.
Women and men who have worked for decades were prevented by the security from entering the premises. Pertinently, the case for recognizing the workers as permanent workers is pending before the Regional Labour Commissioner, Government of India who
has instructed them that the conditions of service of these workers should not be
altered during this time. MS ITI Ltd. stands in blatant violation of this and in total disrespect of the law.
Faced with no other option, workers have sat down in protest outside the factory premises since yesterday.

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The workers have claimed that the management chose to initiate such illegal actions as the core workers of ITI Limited who were subjected to work under contracts that were nothing but a sham unionized last year under the banner of Karnataka General Labour Union affiliated to All India Council of Central Trade Unions (AICCTU) and started demanding their rights including minimum wages.

2/n Com. Palani has been working from April 2016.
"After these many years, ITI has thrown us out saying they have no relation to us, and Poojyaya is our contractor. But Poojyaya came only one year ago! They are happy to take our work, but not to recognise us as workers. . "(cont) pic. twitter. com/yKEY8e8j22
— AICCTU Karnataka (@aicctukar) December 2, 2021

The workers are demanding the Ministry of Communication and the Central Labour
Department to immediately intervene and ensure that the workers are permitted to work and ensure that the management ITI Limited does not indulge in such illegalities in the future.
Speaking to gaurilankeshnews. com, the worker leader Hemanth stated that We have been protesting since yesterday. The management has not responded to the demands of the workers. Today, PSI Manjunath of KR Puram Police Station initiated a negotiation wherein the management claimed that it cannot be held responsible as the workers have been employed through contractors. However, contrary to their claims, we have been working with ITI Limited for several years now.

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