HMSRU State Seminar Concludes

HMSRU State Seminar Concludes

SIRSA NEWS

05 November, 2007

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Two day state seminar of HMSRU (Haryana Medical And Sales Representative Union) an affiliate of FMRAI concluded yestrday. Mr. R.P. Arora, General Secretary, HMSRU, while talking to Sirsa News said that more than 700 delegates from all over Haryana attended the seminar to highlight their demands. A protest march was also held by the participating members on Day one of the seminar after unfurling the red flag by Mr. Jatinder Sharma, Distt President HMSRU and other comrades at the Janta Bhawan premises.

Mr. R.P. Arora said that some of the chief demands of the Union are:

1. 
   Reducing the prices of life saving drugs.
2. 
   Eliminating Substandard and Spurious Drugs
   
3. Declaration of MRs as highly skilled workers.
   
4. Implementation of Sales Promotion Employees Act, 1976 (SPE Act)
   
5. Fixing Minimum wages at Rs10,000
   
6. Demand to stop Lay off of Medical Rep.
   
7. Stop Black marketing of Medicines
   
8. Ban drugs that are frequently used as drug abuse.
   
9. Fixing of Work Hours.

The participants shouted slogans against Central Government, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and interestingly also against Indo-US, Civil Nuclear Deal.

Sirsa News Input:

HMSRU is an affiliate of FMRAI (FEDERATION OF MEDICAL & SALES REPRESENTATIVES’ ASSOCIATIONS OF INDIA)

Background of FMRAI was first formed at Hyderabad in 1962 where it aimed to improve living conditions of the Medical Representatives. It has traveled a long way in building itself as real trade union body. Form the idea that the medical representatives are not workers but somewhat like managers to demand and agitate for recognition as workmen took almost a decade. The management of the pharmaceuticals industry always isolated the medical representatives from the other workers in the factory and office. There was inhibition from the medical representatives also to consider themselves as a workman.

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