MC Horticulture Department employees' protest on December 9th is confirmed. Preparations are complete.

MC Horticulture Department employees' protest on December 9th is confirmed. Preparations are complete.

Chandigarh 8 December ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : The protest being held in front of the Municipal Corporation office on December 9th, 2025, at the call of the CMC Horticulture Workers Union, Chandigarh, is confirmed. In preparation for the protest, a gate meeting was held today at the Horticulture Booth in Sector 34, completing a series of gate meetings at various booths. 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, Gurpreet Singh, Mata Saran, Perumal, Rajendra, Bhag Singh, and other union officials strongly condemned the officials, stating that the Municipal Corporation officials are paying no attention to the long-standing demands of the Horticulture Department employees and are deliberately ignoring them, causing significant anger among the employees. Union officials appealed to all employees to participate in large numbers in the protest being held in front of the Municipal Corporation on December 9, 2025. They said that despite repeated memorandums and meetings with Municipal Corporation officials, the demands of the Horticulture employees have been pending for a long time and the officials are reluctant to implement them. and some officials are involved in anti-union activities. 

He stated that due to the negative and anti-employee attitude of 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 by the Municipal Corporation, etc., are pending. Instead of meeting these demands, 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 employees attending the gate meetings raised their hands amid anti-corporation slogans and pledged their full participation in the strike.