Govt, companies, workers should work together to spur growth: Trade Unions

Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) president Dr G Sanjeeva Reddy stressed on the need to consider workers as social partners

With the Covid-19 pandemic casting a shadow on business and industrial activities, top leaders of national trade union organisations have pleaded with the government to support MSMEs to tide over the crisis.

Participating in a web meeting conducted by the National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM), trade union leaders emphasized that the government, management of companies, and the labour force must work in unison in a coordinated manner to pull the economy out of the crisis and spur growth.

Seeking concrete measures to increase the purchasing power of workers, the national president of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), CK Saji Narayanan, said it