BPCL privatisation - employees unions going on two day united strike on 7th and 8th September, 2020 - Central Trade Unions call for solidarity action..

The unions of the employees of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., are going on a united two day strike, on 07^th & 08^th September, 2020. This strike is against the anti-national decision of the Modi government, for outright privatisation of BPCL, through strategic sale. It is important to note that BPCL is earning thousands of crores of rupees as profit every year. It is paying Rs.8,000 crore, as dividend alone, to the government every year. Will the Modi government tell the nation, why is it privatising such a huge profit earning PSU? 

The only reason behind this privatisation is that, the government wants to hand over the entire petroleum sector, to the looting of Mukesh Ambani. The joint platform of the Central Trade Unions, consisting of all the 10 major trade unions of the country, except the BMS, have condemned this move of the government and have demanded that the BPCL should not be privatised. The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions have called on to organise massive solidarity actions in support of the BPCL employees' strike and against the privatisation of BPCL.