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Textile unions to protest against wage accord issue
Our Bureau
Coimbatore
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June 21
THE joint action council (JAC) of the textile workers' trade unions has decided to hold a protest demonstration before the Secretariat in Chennai on July 1 against the special industrial tribunal hearing the State textile workers' wage issue accepting individual mills' wage accords and passing them as "interim wage awards."
The decision to observe the protest demo in Chennai was taken at a meeting of the JAC of the State-level textile workers' central unions held here on Sunday under the chairmanship of the DMK-affiliated Labour Progressive Front leader, Mr Kuppuswamy, Member of Parliament.
The tribunal hearing the textile mill workers' wages dispute referred to it under the Industrial Disputes Act in 2001 by the State Government had accepted a batch of settlements of wages filed before it by individual textile mill managements and their workmen vide its orders on April 7, 2003.
The JAC, which had originally represented the workers in the dispute, had been pleading against accepting any unit-level wage settlement or its passage as a wage award by the tribunal.
The JAC has been arguing that the matter to be adjudicated at the tribunal is concerned with the "standardisation of the textile mill workers" wages to be determined industry-wise, and, hence, no individual settlement should be passed as an award.
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