Kathmandu. A movement to recover service charges has also started at the Radisson Hotel in Lazimpat. The organization’s Deputy General Secretary Sudarshan Timalsina has said that an awareness campaign for workers’ rights and entitlements has been launched since Sunday under the leadership of the All Nepal Hotel, Casino and Restaurant Workers’ Association.
The organization’s in-charge Madhav Pandey said that the organization has been continuously struggling to recover the service fee that workers in the hotel and tourism sector have been receiving since 2006, since the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court on Magh 11, 2079 BS.
Recently, while awareness campaigns have been being conducted in various hotels and restaurants in the Kathmandu Valley under the leadership of the organization, workers have also started the struggle and awareness campaign at Hotel Radisson. .
Central President Kumar Pant has called on all workers to participate in the sit-in program to be held at Maitighar Mandala from Chaitra 1st.
Pant clarified that the movement is not against the government or hotel operators, but to restore the lost rights of the workers, saying, ‘This year is the year of struggle for workers to get their rights, because the Labor Act is being amended, and our pressure needs to be applied.’
Amrita Sapkota, the central secretary of the organization, said that even if the court rejects the law, the lost rights can be restored by making a law from the legislature, and that the workers need to put pressure for that. She kept it.
Ram Pant, the central treasurer of the organization and the chairman of the Radisson Hotel Unit Committee, instructed everyone to join the struggle as the workers were suffering further after the cancellation of service charges at the Radisson Hotel where they work. Ramhari Bhandari, a central member of the organization and Radisson unit secretary, said that since it is difficult to earn a living after the abolition of service charges, they must recover them at any cost.
Bishan Singh Dhami, Radisson unit committee chairman of the Nepal Unified Hotel, Casino and Restaurant Workers Union, which is close to the Madhav Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist Party), expressed solidarity with the awareness campaign and said that they would also join the struggle.
Binda Mahat, Raju Pujari, Rajkumar Sapkota, Kabiraj Thapa, working at Radisson Hotel, Govinda Bhatta and others said that their daily lives have been very difficult due to the increasing inflation in recent times, but also the reduction of the services they have been enjoying due to the wrong decision of the court, so they have no option but to go on the struggle again.
The organization’s Senior Vice President Milan Malla, Secretary Ram Kumar Wagle, central members Sunita Thapa, Sailendra Mandal and others were present at the program.
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