The Hindu Business Line : Dock workers plan protest

The port and dock workers across the country under various trade unions have decided to observe July 25 as `protest day' and organise rallies to press for, among other things, a scientific basis for determining the gang and crew strength needed to serve the ports after considering the port-specific needs.

The decision to protest was taken on July 12 at a meeting of various trade unions in Mumbai. Leaders of the All India Port and Dock Workers' Federation (Workers), the Water Transport Workers' Federation of India, the Indian National Port and Dock Workers' Federation, and Port Dock and Waterfront Workers' Federation of India participated in the meeting, said a press release from Cochin Port Employees' Organisation, affiliated to CITU.

After the protest day, the workers may seek to intensify the agitation depending on the response from the port managements to the demand raised by the workers.

Leaders of various trade unions, including the Cochin Port Staff Association, the Cochin Port Employees' Organisation, the Cochin Port Workers' and Staff Association, the Cochin Thuramugha Thozhilali Union, the Cochin Port Thozhilali Union, the All-India Trade Union Congress and the Cochin Port Labour Unionparticipated in the meeting at the Kochi port.

The port and dockworkers have been piqued by the coming into effect of a verdict by the Kolkata-based National Industrial Tribunal that was notified on June 3 this year. According to the port and dockworkers, if the ruling is implemented, the productivity at Indian ports would come down drastically and vitiate the atmosphere at the ports.

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