Municipal contract workers demand equal wages

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At an event organised in Azad Maidan, the workers, under the banner of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), demanded staff jobs with equal wages and benefits, the eradication of the contract system and the immediate payment of arrears of the minimum wages they are entitled to. They said the arrears of the last 22 months per worker range from Rs.1,10,000 in Mumbai to Rs.1,60,000 in other parts of the State.