Nagpur: About 570 Gopani Iron and Power Limited workers, Chandrapur, sighed relieved when they were restored to their work this week after the intervention of the Labor Ministry and the Labor Department.
Disputes between Tadoli MIDC sponge iron workers, and Gopani management is quite calm after the New Testament is signed with an increase of around 25% in wages along with the inclusion of the payment of the Diwali bonus component, it was studied.
Sources in the Labor Department said Gopani management had stopped 570 workers through notification on September 3.
The service of five contractors was also withdrawn.
Also studied that the unit was closed later on September 7 due to lack of raw materials.
Previously in August, the company’s production had been reduced by almost 50% after work was hit by a shortage of raw materials.
Apart from the shortage of basic raw materials, the company has quoted the steel market market in the economic background that was fed up by Covid attacks in the country as another place for their drastic decisions.
Reduction of workers has triggered madness at the request of workers for the update of the wage agreement that has been stopped due to covid pandemics.
The source said workers, through their relationship, demanded a 60% increase in wages that lead to deadlock.
The sources of the Labor office also said that workers demanded salaries for July and August, which have not been paid.
Assistant Commissioner of Labor Rajdeep Dhurve said management decided to resolve one-month salary arrears with installments along with new service agreements and bonuses.
“The Labor Ministry should have heard the problem once again because there was a deadlock for the problem ‘there was no work, no wages’,” he said.
“The workers and their associations demanded wages because the work was stopped due to the unilateral decision of the Gopani management.
The problem was resolved peacefully after the ministerial intervention and the Ministry of Manpower,” said Dhurve, whose business is under the supervision of the Workers Commissioner Adddedia Nitin Patankar helped resolve disputes.