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- The CITU-affiliated United Electricity Contract Workers Union has called a 'Chalo Vijayawada' protest on August 10, urging power contract workers across Andhra Pradesh to attend in large numbers.
- The union says contract workers, who it claims are crucial to 24x7 power supply, face low wages, job insecurity, hazardous conditions, poor medical facilities and no retirement benefits.
- Its demands include abolishing third-party employment, merging contract workers into power utilities, equal pay for equal work, ₹20 lakh retirement benefits, unlimited medical insurance, risk allowances, and a Pay Revision Commission for 52,000 employees and contract workers.
- The union says the struggle will continue until the demands are met.
What to watch next
- Turnout at the August 10 Vijayawada protest and any disruption to power services
- Whether the government or power utilities respond to the union's demands
- Possibility of the agitation continuing or escalating if demands remain unmet
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