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My Trade unionism in newspaper industry in Goa, India, Aurangabad and Pune I have fought for implementation of the Palekar Wage award for journalists and other newspaper employees. In 1987, I had also appeared before the 11 member Bachchwat Wage Commission to argue for better pay scales and facilities for newspaper employees in the country. As General Secretary of the Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ ), I was instrumental in absorption of a large number of surplus employees post computerisation or automation in The Navhind Times, Panjim, where I worked. When daily Gomantak, then owned by Chougules, summarily retrenched 19 surplus newspaper employees in 1987, I took up the matter with the Labour Commissioner and succeeded in giving better financial package to the retrenched workers. I have therefore very strong reasons to be appalled to see that hundreds of journalists and others are sacked, thrown to the wind, following closure of Sakal Times, Gomantak Times