Cuddalore: About 14,000 contract workers affiliated to All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) of the state owned Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) commenced an indefinite strike on Saturday demanding among other things service regularization.
A tripartite meeting, convened by R Sivaraj, Central Assistant Labour Welfare Commissioner with the NLC management and representatives of the AITUC on April 19 had failed to find a solution to end the strike.
AITUC leader A Sekar told Press Trust of India (PTI) that the NLC management had reached an agreement with the union in 2008 for service regularisation of the contract workers in a phased manner.
Asked whether power generation would be affected due to the strike, a company spokesperson said, "not even a single Mega Watt of power generation got affected".
To a query on the work getting stalled in NLC owned mines, he said, "production in all our mines is not affected. We have got enough stock to run".
A tripartite meeting, convened by R Sivaraj, Central Assistant Labour Welfare Commissioner with the NLC management and representatives of the AITUC on April 19 had failed to find a solution to end the strike.
AITUC leader A Sekar told Press Trust of India (PTI) that the NLC management had reached an agreement with the union in 2008 for service regularisation of the contract workers in a phased manner.
Asked whether power generation would be affected due to the strike, a company spokesperson said, "not even a single Mega Watt of power generation got affected".
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To a query on the work getting stalled in NLC owned mines, he said, "production in all our mines is not affected. We have got enough stock to run".
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