Close factories or treat us as frontline Covid warriors: Auto workers demand (ld)
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Venkatachari Jagannathan ( IANS)
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Tue, May 25 2021 19:06 IST
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Amritsar: Factory workers wear masks before going to work, as a precautionary measure against the deadly Coronavirus, in Amritsar on March 8, 2020. . Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 25 : With hundreds of them in many automobile units getting infected with coronavirus in the second wave, workers want factories to shut down to break the Covid-19 chain spread.
With the Tamil Nadu government classifying automobile units as Public Utility Service, workers want the companies to treat them as Covid-19 frontline workers and pay a compensation of Rs.50 lakh to the family of the workers who die due to coronavirus.