Trade unions call one-day nationwide strike on Nov 26 over labour codes

The unions include those affiliated to left political parties and Congress, apart from certain independent ones. RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh stays out

Trade unions on Friday announced that they will go on a one-day nationwide strike on November 26 to oppose the labour codes approved by the Parliament recently and demanding cash transfer to all non-income tax paying families.

“The labour codes are designed to impose conditions of virtual slavery on the workers, making formation of unions difficult and virtually taking away the right to strike, keeping large sections of unorganised sector workers…out of their ambit,” a draft declaration to be signed by central trade unions in its national convention to be held on Friday stated.

The declaration, to be signed by