JNIMS attendants launch cease work strike
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 08 2017:
Decrying the authority's failure to pay their wages for 11 months, outsourced attendants of JNIMS have launched a cease work strike from today .
The aggrieved attendants launched the cease work strike by staging a sit-in-protest in front of the office of JNIMS Medical Superintendent .
Around 70 outsourced attendants have been working in different wards and departments of JNIMS since December 2014 on the basis of daily wage payment .
As their engagement in JNIMS is completing three years, they have been demanding either absorption in JNIMS or a special arrangement under which they can extend their service .
Highlighting the same demand, they submitted a memorandum to the previous Government but there has been no response from JNIMS authority till date .
Notably, the Chief Minister is the Chairman of JNIMS Society .
It has been 11 months since the outsourced attendants have not been paid their wages .
A meeting of JNIMS Society governing body was held on May 23 this year with Chief Minister N Biren in the chair .
The meeting decided to retain 80 outsourced attendants under JNIMS and hike their daily wages from Rs 191 to Rs 291.But the decisions are yet to be translated into action .
As invited by JNIMS authority, the agitating outsourced attendants held a meeting with the JNIMS Director and the Medical Superintendent but the JNIMS authority only assured that their issue would be apprised to the JNIMS Society Chairman/Chief Minister .
As such, the outsourced attendants maintained that they would continue with the cease work strike.