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Contractors' body asks labourers to end `illegal' strike at VSP
Our Bureau
Visakhapatnam
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June 14
THE Ukku (steel) Contractors' Welfare Association has termed the ongoing strike by the contract labourers in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant as illegal and appealed to the workers to resume duty immediately.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Mr N. Simhadri Rao, President of the Association, and Mr U.V.V.S.N Raju, General Secretary, said the contract workers had struck work since June 2 all of a sudden and there was no intimation.
The contractors said they were paying the workers the minimum wages in accordance with the notifications issued by the State Labour Department and "there is no violation of any of the provisions of the Act. Therefore, the strike is unjustified and unfortunate."
The gate passes of the workers were being cancelled as they were keeping away from work unofficially , according to the statement.
In another statement, Mr M. Rajasekhar, General Secretary of the recognised Visakha Steel Employees' Congress of the INTUC, said the unions affiliated to the AITUC and the CITU were "misleading the contract workers and inciting them to gain a foothold in the plant."
He accused "the Leftist unions of threatening and intimidating the loyal workers" and appealed to the security personnel of the plant to provide protection to loyal workers. He said CITU and AITUC were spoiling the prevailing cordial atmosphere in the plant and there was no justification for the strike by the 8,000 workers.
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