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CPM, workers call Thiruma's comment misleading
The New Indian Express Villupuram
|August 19, 2025
CPM state secretary P Shanmugam and protesting sanitary workers, along with their union representatives, on Monday criticised VCK president Thol Thirumavalavan for opposing the regularisation of workers' jobs, calling his remarks "misleading and unacceptable."
Thirumavalavan had recently said that while VCK supported their demand, it risks bringing back caste-based occupations and regularisation is not the way forward. In response, Shanmugam said the demand was not about enforcing hereditary sanitation work but about ensuring legal rights.
"According to state government rules, contract workers who complete 240 days of service must be made permanent. This demand is not only for sanitary workers, but for bus conductors, drivers and other contract staff. For years, this rule has been ignored, and unions are only seeking its enforcement," he said.
This story is from the August 19, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Villupuram.
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