A federation of various Railway employee unions has decided to launch a country-wide 24-hour hunger strike tomorrow to demand better package for railway employees and scrapping of new pension scheme. "More than a lakh railway employees including trackmen, running staff and technicians will join the mass hunger strike on October 9 for the fulfilment of their genuine demands," All-India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) General Secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra told reporters here today. The demands include better package for trackman, upgradation technician's grade, improvement of pay scales of running staff and clearance of arrears, among others.

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