Team Herald
PANJIM: With the two-day All India General Strike beginning on Tuesday, the Goa government has invoked Goa Essential Services Maintenance Act, (ESMA) 1988 (Goa Act 20 of 1989) prohibiting a strike in any form in all transport services within the State. The order, which is valid for a period of six months, comes in view of bank and transport unions extending support to the pan-India strike.
Goa Government Employees Association (GGEA) has also declared its support and solidarity to the strike. GGEA President John Nazareth has requested government employees and association members to voluntarily participate in the rally from KTC bus stand to Azad Maidan at 9.30am on Tuesday.
“GGEA supports the demand including implementation of the 7th Central Pay to all corporations and the autonomous and corporations bodies, implementation of defined pension scheme to all government employees and transfer the amount which has been deducted from the employees under the new pension scheme, parity in pay scales, regularisation of service and payment of minimum wages to the Aanganwadi workers,” the GGEA demanded while extending support to the Goa Convention of Mass Organization for the strike.
The Goa Bank Employees Association has last week called for the two-day general strike stating that in the name of development, the government is pursuing policies that will further make the rich richer at the cost of the common masses. The private bus operators have also called for suspending operations against the government’s anti-labour policies.
