Nizamabad: Beedi workers affiliated to the Telangana Beedi and Cigar Workers Union and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged a dh...
Nizamabad: Beedi workers affiliated to the Telangana Beedi and Cigar Workers Union and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged a dharna in front of the Tahsildar’s office here on Monday demanding that the Central government should withdraw GO No 727. Addressing the gathering, Workers Union State president Siddiramulu said that GO No 727 stipulated carrying of pictorial warning of throat cancer on beedi packets from April 1, 2015.
He said that the Centre’s GO would harm the interests of beedi workers. Siddiramulu said it was not right for the Union government to hatch a conspiracy by colluding with multi-national companies as the beedi industry would plunge into crisis. He demanded that the Central government should show alternative options to beedi workers to eke out livelihood.
