Work charge employees to cease work
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 12 2012:
Under the aegis of Joint Co-ordinating Committee of Engineering Departments, work charge employees working in various engineering departments like PWD, PHED, Power Department, IFCD and Minor Irrigation Department have threatened to launch a cease work strike from November 20 if the State Government fails to release their 19 months' revised pay before Ningol Chakkouba.
In pursuance of their demand, the agitated work charge employees have stating sit-in protest demonstration in the complex of PWD, Khuyathong since November 6 .
Talking to mediapersons on the sideline of the sit-in-protest demonstration today, T Tikendrajit, Chairman of Joint Coordinating Committee, lamented that in spite of various memorandums submitted to the Chief Minister and other concerned department authorities, 1950 work charge employees working in various engineering departments have been deprived of their rightful revised pay salaries of ROP 2010 for the last 19 months.
As such, the aggrieved work charge employees have decided to launch cease work strike from November 20 .
"If the demand is not met even after launching the cease work strike,we would be compelled to take recourse to various intense agitations later on", he added.