MUMBAI : Two thousand ASHA workers working under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have decided to go on an indefinite strike from Tuesday for various pending demands. All ASHA workers working under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation should be given a salary of Rs.6,000, their salary should be paid before the 10th of every month, ASHA workers should be appointed as health workers in the vacant posts of retired health workers in the Municipal Corporation.
Similarly, the health workers of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation should be given minimum wages, provident fund and pension, maternity benefits, group insurance scheme or an annual insurance premium of Rs.15,000 from 2015, according to the court order. It should not be given to them.
The ASHA workers have also demanded that no additional paid work should be imposed without entering into an agreement with the union and the additional work should be paid on the basis of overtime allowance i. e. double the remuneration as per the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act. Four thousand health workers and two thousand Asha workers of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation have decided to go on strike on Tuesday (June 11th).
Four thousand health workers and two thousand ASHA workers will gather at Azad Maidan. They have also threatened to take to the streets of Mumbai if their demands are not met. A meeting of four thousand health workers and two thousand Asha workers was held recently. It was decided to continue the agitation for the pending demands. The president of the Municipal Health Service Employees Association and Municipal Asha Sevika Union.