MC Horticulture Department employees will protest on December 9th.
A gate meeting was held today at the Horticulture Department in Mani Majra.
Chandigarh 2 December ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Following the call of the CMC Horticulture Workers Union, Chandigarh, a gate meeting was held today at the Mani Majra Horticulture booth in preparation for the protest to be held in front of the Municipal Corporation office on December 9, 2025. Addressing the meeting, Union President and Federation General Secretary Harkesh Chand, Union General Secretary and Federation Vice President M.M. Subramaniam, Vice President Budhram, Bhag Singh, etc. said that the Municipal Corporation officials are not paying any attention to the long-standing demands of the Horticulture Department employees and are deliberately ignoring them, which has caused immense anger among the employees. The Union officials appealed to all employees to participate in large numbers in the protest to be held in front of the Municipal Corporation on December 9, 2025.
They said that despite repeated memorandums and meetings with the Municipal Corporation officials, the demands of the Horticulture workers have been pending for a long time and the officials are showing reluctance in implementing the demands, and some officials are They are engaged in anti-union activities. He stated that due to the negative and anti-employee attitude of the officials, demands such as prompt tender allotment, bonuses for outsourced workers, regularization of daily wage workers who have completed 10 years since 2006 and providing them with basic pay, DA, HR, ACCA, and medical care, regularization of temporary workers who have completed 10 years and securing their jobs and providing equal pay for equal work, providing oil, soap, and uniforms to daily wage, contract, and outsourced workers based on MOH, providing revised DC rates to remaining employees, providing GPF statements for employees, removing the 5 percent ceiling and providing jobs to dependents of deceased employees, promptly providing pensions and gratuities to retired employees, and issuing ID cards to all temporary employees through the MC, etc., are pending. Instead of meeting these demands, the officials are rapidly handing over green belts and parks to private societies, threatening the threat of layoffs for temporary workers. This cannot be tolerated under any circumstances. All the employees present at the gate meeting, raising their hands amid anti-corporation slogans, pledged their full participation in the strike. The union's executive meeting today reviewed preparations for the strike, and urged all officials to make every effort to prepare for the strike.

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