Members of the Odisha Electrical Workers Union (GED) will resort to a State wide agitation from February 23 protesting the proposed merger of GED with the civil division.
Describing the merger as unilateral and unfortunate, union working president Syam Sundar Barik said the union would launch State wide agitation to protest the merger. Employees would wear black badges from February 23 to 25. They would resort to non-cooperation movement on February 26 and resort to dharna at Nirman Soudh here from February 27 till the proposed merger is withdrawn, he added.
The GED employees in Ganjam and Gajapati districts in an emergency meeting presided over by their president Bijaya Pani unanimously decided to extend their support to the agitation.
The other demands include regularization of 166 temporary employees who have been working in the organization since last two decades, creation of four divisions of the GED in the State with each division to be headed by an executive engineer, recruitment of employees as per the yardstick, provision of in-service training for employees, discontinuation of contractual system in the GED.