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.

Through this poster campaign we were able to bring the demands of YCW India to the awareness of the Central and state governments and of the public.

On the 1^st of May, YCW India and CWM jointly organised a seminar at Thanjavur on the topic “Labour Rights”. 70 workers of various categories participated in the seminar. From YCW 15 young workers participated in the seminar.

Our YCW districts movement have planned to organise many activities to celebrate the May Day in the month of May in order to highlight the above demands of young workers. The district movement of Madurai will organise a public meeting on 8^th of May. The district movement of Thoothukudi will also organise a public meeting on 15^th of May. The district movements of Thiruvarur and Kumbakonam will organise a two days seminar on labour rights to our young workers on 15^th and 16^th of May.