YCW India Demands the Central and State governments to increase the Daily Minimum Wage…….

Poster Campaign May Day 2010

We, the YCW India, organised a Poster Campaign at the national movement level to celebrate the International Week of Young Workers and May Day. The poster was calling the attention of the Central and State governments to increase the daily minimum wage of the agricultural workers and to increase the unemployment stipend for the unemployed youth. We have been demanding the governments to increase the daily minimum wage from Rs. 80 to Rs. 120 for the workers in the informal economy. We printed 400 posters in Tamil and 100 posters in English and pasted them in the towns and villages in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thirunelvely, Thoothukudi, Madurai, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Thiruvarur, Amaravathi and Akola. We also distributed 4000 hand bills in Tamil and 1000 handbills in English to the public explaining the history of May Day and the demands of YCW India.

YCW India demands to increase the daily minimum wage to Rs. 150 and jobs for unemployed young workers…….  

   We, YCW India, have been focussing the campaign for Social Protection for young workers since 1998. The priority demands of our campaign are to increase the daily minimum wage of workers in the informal economy from Rs. 80 to Rs. 150 and to provide jobs for the unemployed. In order to bring these 2 demands again to the local government and to the public, we decided to organise a press meet and a bicycle rally at Dindigul in Tamil Nadu on 29^th March 2010.

YCW Madurai took the responsibility to organise this action with the accompaniment and support from the national team. An action committee was formed including the YCW Madurai district team members and the national team. Preparation meetings were held on 13^th Feb and 23^rd March.

Press Meet

The action started with the press meeting on 29^th March at Dindigul. Reporters from 3 T.V channels and 3 news papers were present in the meeting. Rajesh, the national president explained the objectives of our action and the following demands to the press:

Dharna (Protest Street Meeting) by YCW India

We organised a Dharna (Protest meeting) on 7^th March from 3 to 5 pm at the centre of the town at Thanjavur to celebrate the International Women Day and to demand the rights of young women workers. 40 YCW members, 35 supporters of YCW participated in the activity. More than 1000 people paid attention to our demands. Our young leaders assumed the leadership of this activity through leading the activity; giving speeches and raising the demands through slogans. Ms. Tamil Selvi, secretary All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA) Thanjavur district and Mr. Manoharan, secretary Centre for Indian Trade Union (CITU) addressed the public and supported our demands. We also distributed our demands through the pamphlets to the public who were passing us. We demanded our government to ensure the following:

Wage increased for the Young workers in Pallapatti