The central trade unions will go on a one-day strike on May 7 demanding merger of a portion of dearness allowance with basic pay and filling up of vacancies besides revival of sick public sector units.
The unions, including CITU, AITUC and HMS, said they have presented their eight-point charter of demands to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a meeting in New Delhi on Monday.
"The prime minister has requested us not to go on strike," CITU President M K Pandhe told PTI after the meeting the trade union leaders, led by Sitaram Yechury, had with Singh.
The unions, in a memorandum submitted to Singh, warned that they would oppose the government's "new initiatives" in disinvesting
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