A meeting of All India Construction Workers’ Federation- a federation of unions of construction workers affiliated to AICCTU- was held on 9 January 2010 at Bhagalpur, Bihar. Leaders from states including Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Delhi, W. Bengal participated in the meeting. The meeting decided to hold a Maha Dharna in front of the Parliament in the coming Union Budget session and also to call for a nationwide strike of construction workers later in the year.
The above programmes will raise a 10-point charter of demands including implementation of Construction Workers Act in all states, fixation of at least Rs. 200/day as minimum wage with provision of VDA at national level, provision of Inter-state Identity cards to workers and fixation of pension as half of the amount of monthly minimum wage.
