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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.
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Mon, May 24 2021 13:21 IST |
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Chennai, May 24 : Five workers have died and about 850 have been infected with coronavirus at RenaultNissan Automotive India Private Ltd since last year, said a top leader of Renault Nissan India Thozhilalar Sangam (RNITS).
He also said in 2021 alone 420 employees have tested Covid-19 positive.
The Renault Nissan Automotive is a joint venture car manufacturing plant of French auto major Renault and Japan s Nissan Motor Company. All our workers are young and they are dying. There is no social distance maintained at the factory. We had suggested reducing the number of cars produced per hour. This in turn would reduce the number of workers per workstation. But the management didn t agree, K.Balaji Krishnan, President RITS told IANS.
Covid-19 spread fear brews labour unrest in TN auto units
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Chennai, May 24 : Covid-19 related labour unrest is slowly brewing in the automobile sector in Tamil Nadu, with workers demanding shutting down of the factories during the lockdown period and maintaining social distancing at work.
On Monday, workers of country s second largest car maker Hyundai Motor India Ltd stopped production demanding closure of the factory as about 750 workers turned Covid-19 positive during April and May.