The Tata Sponge Shramik Sangha failed to pass any resolution in its general body meeting held here recently as 248 of the total 270 members left the meeting halfway shouting slogans against the office bearers.
Sources revealed that the present executive body which was elected in the year 2015 had to hold the general body meeting, as per the practice, at the end of the last financial every to ratify the tenure of the union and pass the statement of accounts and other activities of the union. As no such meeting was held, members were angry.
Sources close to union’s former secretary Gopal Chandra Malik and UK Barik said when union officials tried to counter a news published on
‘The Pioneer’ dated October 28, 2016 regarding alleged irregularities of the union, workers got angry and told them to sit down. Even some of them rushed to the official and forced him to remain silent.
Then the office bearer begged apology. later, workers put many questions to which office bearers could not give satisfactory replies. Resultantly, a chaotic situation erupted and the workers left the meeting shouting slogans against the office bearers and demanding immediate election for the union.