Today, various Left student organisations have gathered outside Jadavpur University to support the nationwide workers’ strike called for the repeal of the new labour codes. These codes are being described as 'extremely horrendous', even 'barbaric', laws that effectively 'strip workers of rights they have fought for over years and decades'.
The All India Trade Union Congress, a forum of 10 central trade unions, called for a strike across the country on Wednesday, which will affect postal, banking, electricity, public transport, and several other services. The forum has claimed that 25 crore workers are being mobilised for the "general strike" in protest against the new labour codes, along with other issues.
00:00So today, the various left organizations, various left student organizations have gathered outside the Open University
00:09to implement the patient-wide workers' right that has been called for the eradication of the New Labour Court
00:16which is an extremely horrendous law, it's a barbaric law which essentially takes away all the rights that workers have fought for over years over decades.
00:30It's not a one-day strike, it shouldn't turn into an open strike, this is a much longer fight.
