Report: Demonstration against Changes in Labour Laws by Rajasthan Govt

New Delhi (Press Note/ 18^th June 14): Despite the Delhi Police coercion since yesterday to stop the Protest Demonstration for ‘security reasons’, we held a Protest in front of Bikaner House, New Delhi this morning against the anti-labour reforms proposed by the BJP government in Rajasthan. This ‘denial of permission’ for any democratic voices of protest is part of ‘security’ given nakedly or covertly by the state machinery to protect class interests of the corporate regime.

Resist Anti-Labor Laws

The changes in the three crucial labour legislations, the Industrial Disputes Act, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, the Factories Act is part of the regime of ‘bitter pills’ that Narendra Modi is talking about today. It is nothing else but the forced implementation of neo-liberal reforms, for which the BJP-led Rajasthan government is supposed to have ‘shown the way’, and other states and the Central government will soon follow. While Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje has given the reason of ‘15 lakh job creation’, the effects of this move is the exact opposite- increasing insecurity and joblessness.