In support of their various demands the employee union of the Ordnance Factory here staged a protest meeting in front of main entrance the factory on Monday. Under the banner of the Ordnance factory employee union the employees held a gate meeting at the entrance of the factory.
Addressing the gate meeting the president of the union SB Nautiyal said that the factory administration is failing to provide the facilities like health, welfare measures and maintenance ton workers similarly the tools necessary for production and processing material too is not being provided by the factory administration. He claimed that the production and the image of the factory is affected by the callousness of the officials. Nautiyal said that the appointments under the compassionate grounds are deliberately delayed by the officials.
He said that the vacant position of medical and paramedical staff in the factory hospital should be filled and equipment like digital X rays machine, bio analyzer and ultra sound machine should be purchased for improving the facilities of the hospital. Nautiyal also charged the central government for adopting anti labour policies.
The workers also raised demand for improving the facilities like road, road lights, ATM, high mast lights and Canteen inside the campus of the factory. The members of the union later met the General Manager of the factory and handed over their memorandum. The protest was addressed by Anil Uniyal, Sahshi Nautiyal, Ashok Sharma, TS Rawat, Sanjeev Mawal, SPS Rawat and Niraj Sharma.