Workers hold demo at Essel’s Jilling Mines
Demanding fulfilment of various demands, the AITUC-affiliated Keonjhar Mines and Forest Workers’ Union held a demonstration at the Jilling Mines of the Essel company under the Joda Mining Circle of Keonjhar district on Wednesday.
Under the union general secretary Maheswar Rout’s leadership, about 3,000 workers of the Jilling Mines came in a rally and handed over a memorandum to the company authorities. The demands included providing free medical services to workers and their families, making permanent the workers who are engaged under contractors for a long period, giving more bonus than the last year, providing water and electricity to the workers' colony and making provision for increment to the contract workers.
If demands are not fulfilled within 15 days, the union threatened to go on an indefinite strike.
Union president Ramakrishna Panda, general secretary Maheswar Rout, working president Bidyadhar Mahanta, Kahnu Samal, Kapila Mohanty addressed the workers.