TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Starting Thursday employees of the Goa Recruitment and Employment Society (GRES) will engage in an animated door-to-door signature campaign and organize programmes in Porvorim and hold a rally in Mapusa on Friday, to highlight their grievances before the public, since there does not seem to be resolution of the long drawn strike till now. The striking guards want help from locals as they look to create awareness around the State about the problems they face.
“We have got no support from the government and we have been on strike since December, but still nothing positive has come of the strike. Due to this we want to get support from locals through a signature campaign,” Swati Kerkar told the media Wednesday.
“Friday being a busy day in Mapusa, we hope to get a lot more people involved in the signature campaign,” said Kerkar.
“There is serious need of informing the public of the workings of the government. They first assure the members that they will be placed in jobs but are still awaiting news on this regard,” said union leader Ajitsingh Rane. The employees have also planned awareness programmes that will continue till Sunday, which include poems that embody the anguish and trouble the workers have faced.
The security guards had first gone on a strike and then a relay hunger strike for over seven days at the city’s Azad Maidan in December, demanding regularisation of their jobs, and absorption into government service.
