New Delhi: The ten Central trade unions affiliated to the Opposition are all set to announce a general strike in February against the implementation of the four labour codes.

Sources said the announcement by the joint platform of the trade unions – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC – is likely to come on December 22, when its leaders meet.

Like in the previous instances, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha is also likely to endorse the general strike call.

When the union government notified the four Codes on November 21, the trade unions had called its implementation “genocidal attacks” and “war on the working masses”. It had already held a one-day protest programme in a joint action with farmers on November 26 demanding its scrapping.

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