Thiruvananthapuram, December 20: The AITUC today charged the UPA Government at the Centre with giving into pressures from big business corporate houses instead of trying to alleviate sufferings of the masses hit hard by price rise.
The Centre was functioning like a “puppet” in the hands of the business monopolies and industrial corporates “dictating” economic and labour policies to the peril of the common people, AITUC General Secretary Gurudas Dasgupta said here.
Addressing a convention of Air India Air Transport Services Limited Employees Union here, the CPI leader said the mainstream media in the country were also “turning a blind eye” to burning issues like price rise by giving prominence to issues like fluctuations of the stock market.
He urged the trade unions to organise joint resistances against the government’s moves to “curtail” the rights and privileges of trade unions
–Agencies