Bengaluru Mar 28 PTI The call for a nationwide strike by central trade unions to protest against the Centres wrong policies affecting farmers workers and common people did not affect normal life in Karnataka on Monday It was business as usual for transport services government offices and educational institutions However industrial belts in Bengaluru and some other parts of the state saw demonstrations by workers According to Prakash K of Centre of Indian Trade Unions CITU the protests and demonstrations took place in a decentralised manner in the state He claimed that banking and insurance services were hit In Bengaluru demonstrations took place in Peenya Industrial Area Bommanahalli Bommasandra KR Puram Yelahanka Bidadi Kengeri and Anekal Prakash told PTI Similarly there were protests in taluk headquarters in many parts of the state the trade union leader claimed He said there will be a centralised demonstration at Freedom Park here on Tuesday by the 10 trade unions including CITU AITUC and INTUC However the Bharat Mazdoor Sangh BMS did not participate in the two-day strike Prakash said A joint forum of central trade unions has given a call for a nationwide strike on March 28 and 29 to protest against the government policies Their demands include the scrapping of the labour codes no privatisation in any form scrapping of the National Monetisation Pipeline NMP increased allocation of wages under MNREGA Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act and regularisation of contract workers PTI GMS RS GMS HDA HDA

New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) affiliated trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) will hold a nationwide protest on January 20 outside the offices of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) demanding the increase in pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000 per month.

Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU Aug 20 Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh BMS JK filed a Public Interest Litigation PIL in JK High Court which issued notice to the Government to reply on September 8 2021This was informed by Ashfaq Ahmed Chohan president BMS while addressing a press conference here todayHe also said that PF officials have given loss to the subscribers whose PF is still laying with PF organization and have not withdrawn so for whereas the subscribers those who had withdrawn their PF accumulations till November 2020 were paid interest 85 thus giving financial loss to subscribers who are still in employment or have not withdrawn PFBMS demands that process of transferring of subscribers account be speeded up and those employers who are not supporting in reconciliation on priority should be punished accordingly said Ashok Choudhary BMS Secretary OrgSachin Bali general secretary ASCOM employees Association Purshotam Singh general secretary Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board Chaman Lal Raina general secretary SRTC Karmchari Union were also present in the press conference