Ranchi: A meeting called by Deputy Head of Labor Commissioner (Center), Anand Kumar, on Tuesday to seek a ceasefire between Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd (HEC), Ranchi and worker representatives and trade unions to end six days of old strikes in PSU Produce any results because workers still insist and they say they will continue with their tools.
Workers have said that they will not return to work until their wages, which have not been paid for the past six months, are fully paid.
The workers told Tii that at the meeting, which began at 2pm, HEC representatives said that efforts would be made to release this one-month salary.
However, representatives of the seven unions rejected the offer and demanded the salary of the last six months soon to return to work PSU had in the grip of the liquidity crisis, very severe so that it could not even pay.
Electricity bills and supply of water or meet raw vital input costs and others to run the plant.
Even the HEC executives have not paid their salaries for the past seven months.
Meanwhile, the union leaders who attended the meeting included Rana Sangram Singh from the Hatan Trade Union affiliated with Bhawan Singh from the Hati Mazdoor Union, Laldeo Singh of the Union Hati Kamgar, Prakash Kumar from HEC Karmchari Union, Ved Prakash Singh from HEC Shramik Sangh, Ram Kumar Sayak from Hata Mazdoor Lok Manchra and the exact Lohra represents Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.