New Delhi: Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) employees on Thursday went on indefinite strike in protest against non-payment of last four months salaries.
Strike of Municipal Corporation workers will affect the local administrative work in the Capital. Thousands of small works are done by these staff.
Workers are asking for help from Prime Minister and authorises people and showing banners of “No Payment – No work”, “Indefinite Hunger Strike” and “Pay our salary”
Many employees from the North, East and South Delhi Municipalities joined the strike and demanded for their legal payment.
The agitated employees also staged a protest at the Civil Lines zonal office of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation and demanded the release of their pending salaries.
The strike has been called under the aegis of the Confederation of MCD Employees Union.
The Convener of confederation of MCD employees union – AP Khan said that “employees in different departments of the north civic body have not been paid salaries for the last four or five months, while the salaries of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) employees have been pending for the last three months. In South Delhi Municipal Corporation, employees’ pensions are not being cleared.”
“Employees have been working without salary for four or five months and now they are unable to take care of their families. We have raised the issue with the authorities several times but to no avail. We are compelled to go on strike until our demands are met. We want all our pending salaries and pensions to be cleared and a permanent solution to this problem,” Khan said.
Employees on the strike are engineers, teachers, Clerical-staff and fourth class employees such as labourers.
In November 2020 – employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi went on indefinite strike to protest non-payment of salary.
_Vinayak