Medical representatives stage strike

KANPUR: More than 20,000 medical representatives of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand staged a day’s strike on Thursday in response to the call of Uttar Pradesh Medical & Sales Representatives Association.
The medical representatives were demanding revocation of transfer orders of their president. They have also asked that the management of pharmaceutical industry should not interfere in activities of sales promotion employees and attack the trade union activities in the industry.
According to Arvind Tiwari, secretary of the Kanpur unit of Uttar Pradesh Medical & Sales representatives Association, all the district units have given a memorandum to their respective district magistrate and sought Maharashtra state’s intervention. In Kanpur, the agitating medical representatives assembled at LLR hospital and took out a procession.