Jharkhand: Labourers lay siege to SAIL office, serve ultimatum to block Chasnala colliery

SUBHASH MISHRA

Ranchi, Nov 24: Hundreds of daily wage labourers today gheraoed Steel Authority of India (SAIL) executive director (coal division) and general manager (coal) and served an ultimatum to stop mining in Chasnala Colliery on December 14-15 if  329  daily wage labourers are not redeployed on work.

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Demonstration at SAIL office, demands handed over

The labourers under the banner of the Bihar Colliery Kamgar Union (BCKU), an affiliated unit of the Central Industrial Trade Union (CITU), reached  SAIL Chasnala Colliery and demonstrated before the office of the executive director and general manager and gheraoed them.

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Later, a delegation of BCKU leaders met the officers and handed over the demand for redeploying the labour in colliery work. The labour leaders warned that if the management fails to give work to labourers by December 13, mining in Chasnala Colliery would be stopped on December 14-15.

329 labourers were laid off

 CITU central executive president Sunder Lal Mahto while leading the demonstration said  329 labourers had been engaged in slurry lifting work in the washery of  Chasnala Colliery for the last 30 years. But the management has stopped them from working for the last three months.

“On this issue, several rounds of talks between the management and the labour representatives have been held. The management agreed at every meeting but has not given work to them so far. So, miners of the colliery have decided to stop mining completely on December 14-15 if they are not redeployed by December 13,” said Sunder Lal Mahto.

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BCKU general secretary Joginder Mahto, CITU senior leader Kali Sen Gupta,  Gautam Prasad, Vikash Kumar Thakur, Shiv Balak Paswan and Gopal Lal also addressed the demonstrators.

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