The 40th central committee meeting of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) affiliated union Nepal Street Vendors’ Union was held successfully on the 13th of September at the GEFONT Trade Union School.
In the meeting presided over by the central president Maya Gurung, GEFONT president Binod Shrestha addressed the meeting and said that the coordination between the structure of GEFONT and the union, the problems seen in the organization, and its strengths and shortcomings should be reviewed in the meeting and future meetings should be held based on the conclusion of the review.
Chairman Shrestha said that the meeting should discuss market management, the problems of the union workers, the leadership development of youth and women, and the role of the union itself and GEFONT in the meeting and wished the meeting success. GEFONT Vice President Bidur Karki and General Secretary Laxman Sharma were also present in the meeting.
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Central Union of Painters, Plumbers, Electro and Construction Workers-Nepal (CUPPEC) conducted a 1-day leadership development training program in Makwanpurgadhi Village on the 12th of September under the organization of Makwanpur District Education Department.
The district president of the training program Pralad Rai gave training about the structure and role of the members of GEFONT, while the district secretary Budh Bahadur BK gave training about the history and program of CUPPEC Nepal. The program was conducted by the municipality secretary Arjun Prasad Ghimire.
CPN-UML Makwanpurgadhi Municipal Committee Chairman Jit Bahadur Ghimire and other guests participated in the program.
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.
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.
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.
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.