NEW DELHI, Nov 24 � An apex body of workers of the media organisations today warned of nationwide dharnas against non-implementation of wage boards recommendations by newspapers and news agencies even after their notification by the government.
A decision to this effect was taken at an emergency meeting of Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Employees� Organisations (CNNAEO), representing prominent workers bodies of media organisations across the country.
The meeting strongly condemned the �anti-worker� attitude of Indian Newspaper Society (INS) by putting �pressure� on the newspapers and news agencies not to give wage hike to journalists and non-journalists.
The members also decided to approach the Central as well as State governments to force newspapers and news agencies to implement the Majithia wage boards recommendations notified on November 11 without any further delay, CNNAEO general secretary MS Yadav said.
He said the confederation leaders would appeal to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to intervene in the interest of workers like former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had done in 1989.
They also demanded that government should make an amendment in the Working Journalists Act, 1955 to incorporate a provision for imprisonment of 6 months for management of newspapers and news agencies not implementing the wage boards report.
Besides Yadav, others who attended the meeting included IJU�s Suresh Akhauri and Madan Singh, IFWJ�s Parmanand Pandey, AINEF leader Roop Chand, NUJI�s Manohar Singh, Indian Express Employees� Union leader CS Naidu, DUJ�s SK Pande, UNI Workers� Union leader ML Joshi and PTI Federation leaders Ajay Tyagi, Sanjay Sinha and Rajbir Singh. � PTI