The Municipal Council and fire brigade employees have announced a three-day statewide strike from August 6 to 8, accusing the Haryana Government of failing to implement the agreements reached with employee unions on May 13.

The announcement was made during a district-level rally held at the Fatehabad Municipal Council premises, where hundreds of employees from across the district participated and raised slogans against the government.

Addressing the gathering, Naresh Kumar Shastri, state president of the Sarv Karamchari Sangh, Haryana, and the Municipal Employees Union, alleged the government had not honoured the agreement reached at a high-level meeting chaired by Urban Local Bodies Minister Vipul Goel on May 13.

Shastri said the agreement included 17 key demands, such as the regularisation of daily-wage, municipal roll and contractual fire brigade employees and ending the contract system for sanitation and sewerage work by placing the workers on the municipal roll. He said official orders on the accepted demands were to be issued by June 30, but the government had not released any notification so far.

Haryana Fire Department Employees Union state president Rajender Singh warned that the government had time until August 5 to implement the agreement. If no action was taken, employees across Haryana would go on a complete strike from August 6 to 8, which could affect municipal and fire services.

Shastri added that district-level rallies were being organised across Haryana from July 7 to 22 as part of the second phase of the employees’ protest.