MC Horticulture Department employees will hold a protest on December 9th. Preparations for the rally are complete.

MC Horticulture Department employees will hold a protest on December 9th. Preparations for the rally are complete.

Chandigarh 5 December ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) :  On the call of CMC Horticulture Workers Union, Chandigarh, preparations have been completed for the protest to be held in front of the Municipal Corporation office on December 9, 2025. Gate meetings were held yesterday at the Horticulture Booth, Sector 29, and today at the Horticulture Booth, Sector 33. Addressing the gate meetings, Union President and Federation General Secretary Harkesh Chand, Union General Secretary and Federation Vice President M.M. Subramaniam, Vice President Budhram, Cashier Hardeep Singh, President Nihal Singh, Ajaib Singh, etc., strongly condemned the officials and 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 the employees to participate in large numbers in the protest to be held in front of the Municipal Corporation on December 9, 2025, saying that the Municipal Corporation has Despite repeated memorandums and meetings with officials, the demands of the horticulture workers have been pending for a long time. 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 the 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 benefits, 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 of 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 attending the gate meetings, amid anti-corporation slogans, raised their hands and pledged full participation in the strike.