Stir to intensify if Budget has proposals against workers: K Hemalata

Last month, trade unions held massive protests in the national capital against the government’s labour law reform proposals. Though the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) opted to have its own show, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) President K Hemalata tells Somesh Jha all trade unions are united in their thought process. Edited excerpts:
 
The trade unions had called nationwide strikes in the past two consecutive years since the NDA government took charge, but not this year. Why?
 
This year there was a big mobilisation drive — mahapadao — in Delhi from November 9-11 where all trade