Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
9 July 2021
Over 150,000 Indian government steel workers hold national strike
Over 150,000 workers at the public sector plants of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) walked out across India on June 30 after negotiations for a pay rise deadlocked. The wage increase has been outstanding since December 2017.
The collective wage and conditions agreement is usually revised every five years by the National Joint Committee for Steel, made up of SAIL management and the five central trade union federations of India.
Workers’ demands included higher wages for permanent and contract workers, increased employer’s contributions to the pension scheme, compensation and employment for family members if a worker dies from COVID-19, the withdrawal of workers’ suspensions in Bhilai and Bokaro steel plants and no privatisation of SAIL and RINL.
Bokaro steel incurs losses in day-long protest against pay revision
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BOKARO: The Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) management has cancelled leaves of all employees for April 13 after two trade unions here gave a call for strike demanding wage revision, among others.
The chief of communication at BSL, Manikant Dhan, said: “BSL has a healthy tradition of resolving issues through discussions with trade unions and workers’ representatives and this has helped in establishing a conducive industrial climate. It is expected from the trade unions and the employees that they would uphold the same tradition. It has been decided that no leave will be granted to employees and already sanctioned leaves shall be deemed to be cancelled. The employees abstaining from work on April 13 and 14 will be deemed to be on strike.”