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| Leighton workers Chenani continue their stir on 3rd day | | | Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR, Oct 28: In protest against termination of their colleagues and unequal wages to local employees at Chenani and Nashri, the indefinite strike launched by the workers of Leighton Company, engaged in construction of Chenani-Nashri tunnel, entered third day today. The striking workers held a rally at both the construction sites of Nashri and Chenani and raised anti-company and anti-labour department slogans for non-implementation of equal wages for equal work by the company, which is working as a contractor for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). They came out of the tunnel work site and held massive demonstration in support of their demands. The work on the tunnel project sites on both sides of the tube remained suspended since yesterday morning. The work was also disrupted yesterday and day before when the management of the company refused to rescind termination of about nine workers from Chenani and Nashri project sites. Their termination was ordered by the company after they demanded equal wages at par with skilled and unskilled workers engaged by the company from outside the state.
The union leaders Arshad Malik and Rashid Malik alleged that the company was discriminating against the local workers so far as regular payment of their wages was concerned. They alleged that the local workers engaged by the company were being paid 40 to 50 percent less wages compared to other employed by the company from outside the state.
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