MC Horticulture Department employees will hold a protest on December 9th. A series of rallies are underway regarding preparations.

MC Horticulture Department employees will hold a protest on December 9th. A series of rallies are underway regarding preparations. 

A gate meeting was held today at the Horticulture Department, Shantikunj, Sector 16.

Chandigarh 3 December ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Preparations are underway for a protest in front of the Municipal Corporation office on December 9, 2025, called by the CMC Horticulture Workers Union, Chandigarh. A gate meeting was held today at the Horticulture Booth, Shantikunj, Sector 16. Addressing the meeting, Union President and Federation General Secretary Harkesh Chand, Union General Secretary and Federation Vice President M.M. Subramaniam, Vice President Budhram, President Nihal Singh, Perumal, and other officials, along with Federation President Rajendra Katoch, 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, causing considerable anger among the employees. The Union officials appealed to all employees to participate in large numbers in the protest 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 remain unfulfilled. The demands have been pending for a long time, and officials are reluctant to implement them, and some officials are engaging in anti-union activities. He said that due to the negative and anti-employee attitude of officials, demands such as early 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 to 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 workers by the MC, etc., are pending. Instead of meeting the demands, officials are rapidly handing over green belts and parks to private societies, threatening temporary workers with layoffs. This is unacceptable under any circumstances. All employees present at the gate meeting, amid anti-corporation slogans, raised their hands and pledged full participation in the strike.