The Hindu Business Line : Port, dock workers stage protest at Mangalore

Members of the Karnataka Dock and General Workers' Union and the New Mangalore Port Staff Association staged a demonstration in front of the administrative office of the NMPT on Thursday, in protest against the economic policies of the Union Government.

They demanded that the Government constitute a bipartite wage negotiation committee for the wage revision of port and dock workers, due from January 1.

The protestors said that they were against the unilaterally imposed guidelines for wage revision negations by the Government, impending free and fair collective bargaining.

In a letter to the Union Government, they supported the nationwide strike called by Central trade union organisations in protest against the economic policies of the Union Government.

Referring to the port sector, the letter said that the existing facilities and new projects in a majority of major ports were being given on BOT basis and on contract system.

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