Confident of winning RSP union poll
Since 1970 nine wage agreements were signed in NJCS. So time has come to see how much the workers were benefited and how much they lost.
The NJCS needs an overhaul and it is only BMS which can fight properly for this to happen, said Rourkela Ispat Karkhana Karmachari Sangh (RIKKS) president Uttam Kumar Das Majumdar in a Press briefing here on Sunday. The RIKKS is affiliated to BMS.
Majumdar said in other public sectors where BMS is a force, the workers get adequate wages with other benefits where as the steel sector workers get much less than that because BMS is not there.
Citing the example of Nalco, Majumdar said there in top rank a worker gets Rs 56,000 with 3 per cent increment where as it is Rs 43, 950 in SAIl.
The RIKKS leader also released a 16-point manifesto of the organisation keeping in view of the coming union RSP poll on October 15.
BMS national executive member Dilip Pattanaik said BMS was earlier opposing the disinvestment in public sector and now it would also oppose the present NDA Government’s proposal for further 5 per cent disinvestment from SAIl.
He also said his organisation would oppose the proposed amendment in Trade Union Act 1926, Minimum Wages Act 1948, Industrial Disputes Act 1947, Apprentice Act 1961, Factories Act 1948 and Contract labour Act 1970 by the Union Government. Among others, RIKKS leaders Bikash Haldar, Himansu Sekhar Bal, Rajendra Mahanta, Radhkanta Mishra and Bibekananda Mahanta were present.
