Nepal Street Vendors' Union (NEST) Thela Bazar Unit Bhimdatta Municipal Committee has submitted a letter of attention regarding management of workplace in Bhimdatta Municipality.

In the attention letter submitted on the 4th of August, 9 issues including the continuation of the halted building process of Thela Bazar, management of toilets, registration of self-employed workers, confiscation of goods of self-employed workers by the city police, and stopping of house arrests are mentioned.
 

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting and Seventh Session of the National Beauticians’ Union of Nepal Amarsingh Unit Committee (Pokhara) was held on August 2nd at Buddha Chowk in Pokhara with the main slogan of safe and dignified employment, rights of beauticians.

The aforementioned 7th convention, which was held with the coordinator of GEFONT Parliamentary and Local Level Mina Gurung as the chief guest, elected a committee of 11 people under the presidency of Tika Ale.

In the program chaired by Dipu Thapa, GEFONT National Committee Member and NABUN Representative Council Chief Suman Gurung, GEFONT Gandaki Deputy Secretary and Women's Committee President Sangita Pandey and NABUN Central Member Nur Gurung were guests.
 

A discussion program was held on August 3rd in the assembly hall of GEFONT located in Hetauda under the organisation of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Makwanpur District Coordination Committee.

The chief guest of the program Binod Shrestha, president of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), covered the questions raised by the participants in the discussion and shed light on the current problems and solutions in the labour sector, along with the path to be taken by GEFONT and related unions.

President Shrestha said that labour cutback, complexity of contract implementation, implementation of labour law, effective implementation of contribution-based social security are the challenges in the current labour market and there is a necessity to organise a movement in a new way to solve these problems.

WHIN Central President Anand Thami, Secretary Geeta Bhandari, GEFONT Bagmati Province President Ramhari Nepal, WHIN Central Member Binod Lamichhane and other leaders participated in the meeting hosted by Vishwanath Sanjel under the chairmanship of WHIN Makwanpur District Coordination Committee President Keshav Adhikari.

General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT)-affiliated National Beauticians’ Union of Nepal (NABUN) Makwanpur district meeting has reconstituted the district committee.

NABUN Central Secretary Sujana Joshi was the chief guest of the meeting held at Hetauda on August 3rd, in which a 9-member district committee was formed under the presidency of Karuna Adhikari.

Similarly, the Hetauda sub-metropolitan committee has also reconstituted a 13-member committee under the presidency of Samjhana Sitaula on the same day.
 

The second session of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Polymers Pvt. Ltd. held on August 3 has elected a 7-member working committee under the leadership of Krishna Raut.

In the convention held under the chief hospitality of WHIN Central President Anand Thami, the guests including Central Secretary Geeta Bhandari and Central Member Manoj Chaudhary gave their greetings, and WHIN Central Secretary Gita Bhandari informed that Manoj Ghimire hosted oath taking ceremony of the newly elected working committee.

General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) affiliated Central Union of Painters, Plumbers, Electro and Construction Workers-Nepal (CUPPEC) has rescued 70 workers who had been stranded for about 1 month and sent them home.

CUPPEC Nepal held the rescue operation after it was reported that Rashula Ali, the contractor of Horizon Apartment located in Tokha, had not provided safe housing and ration for the workers.

A team including CUPPEC Central Vice President Yogendra Sharma, District Labor Department Member Tek Narayan Yadav and GEFONT Tokha Municipal Committee President Leela Bahadur Basnet had coordinated with the relevant parties.