Port workers across the country including those at the Kochi Port will launch an indefinite strike from midnight on Monday if negotiations on a new wage settlement, scheduled for Monday morning in New Delhi, failed.

A spokesman for Kochi Thuramugha Samrakshana Samithi, a combine of
trade unions to protect the interests of Kochi Port, said on Sunday
that Indian Ports Association officials and labour union
representatives would attend the meeting in Delhi with the Central
Labour Commissioner.

The spokesman said that the validity of the current labour agreement ended in December 2006.

The port unions had, in time, submitted their demands.

However, 26 rounds of discussions since then between the port
managements and the five federations of port workers had failed to
yield any result.

The labour union spokesman alleged that though the talks had appeared
to reach the conclusion, the port managements refused to grant the
retrospective effect of the new wage settlement. Besides, the port
managements also wanted to take away some of the existing benefits of
the port workers.

It was in this background that a strike notice was issued. A meeting in Delhi on Friday too had failed to yield any result.

Representatives of various trade unions met here on Saturday and decided to launch the strike from the first shift of Tuesday.

Port workers under the various trade unions will take out a rally from the North End of the port premises on Monday.

Source: The Hindu

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