HAL workers go on indefinite relay hunger strike over wages

HAL workers go on indefinite relay hunger strike over wages

The union leader said the management was not coming forward for wage settlement on par with what the executives got

PTIUpdated: Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 11:39 AM IST
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Bengaluru: About 500 employees of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited went on an indefinite relay hunger strike here from Tuesday, demanding settlement of wages and also salaries on par with other public sector undertakings. "We have not got our wages settled since 2017. We are on a relay hunger strike for an indefinite period. Its throughout the nine units across seven states," chief convener of all the unions Suryadevara Chandrasekhar told PTI.

The union leader said the management was not coming forward for wage settlement on par with what the executives got. "Their (executives) settlement happened in November 2017. Our negotiations continued but it wasn't fruitful. Hence, the deadlock," he said.

However, the HAL said, Most of their (unions) contention were untenable. The claim of the unions that the HAL management is deliberately delaying wage settlement and that offers given to them are meager, is not true, as nine rounds of discussions have already been held." The company said in a statement there was no justification and rationale in the demand of the unions to extend the benefits such as fitment benefit and allowances, on par or more than executives, when salary revision of executives was effected from January 1, 2017 after the stipulated 10-year period.

The PSU's management believes that workers wage revision from January 1, 2017 can only be achieved with the co-operation of the unions, based on realistic and affordable expectations, the company said. The increase in respect of officers with effect from January 1, 2017 needs to be compared with the base of January 1, 2007, the state-owned firm said.

It added that the workmen got two wage revisions of five years periodicity during the same span. The revision needs to be settled keeping in view the increase derived by the officers from the 2007 scales to the 2017 scales and by the workmen from the 2007 scales to the 2012 scales and now 2012 to the 2017 scales, HAL said.

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