After welfare push, Stalin meets select sanitary staff; labour unions stay away

A day after the state government announced various welfare schemes for conservancy workers, representatives of a few sanitary workers' associations on Friday met Chief Minister M K Stalin at his residence to thank him.

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However, major labour unions in the city corporation including CITU-affiliated Red Flag Union, Uzhaippor Urimai Iyakkam, LTUC, and AICCTU - which participated or spearheaded the sanitary workers' protest against privatisation of solid waste management in Royapuram and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar zones - were not part of the delegation. The schemes announced included free breakfast, housing, enhanced insurance cover, special focus on occupational diseases, self-employment support, and education aid for children of the