SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Sept 22: In the wake of a proposed three-day strike, the Coal India Limited (CIL) management has called all the five national trade unions to talk in New Delhi on September 27 to solve the issue of 2.62 lakh employees’ salaries.
In this regard, CIL General Manager (manpower and industrial) Gautam Banerjee has issued a letter to the leaders of all recognized national trade unions for a meeting at Scope Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on September 27 at 10 am.
The CIL has invited K Lakshma Reddy ( Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh), Nathula Pandey (Hind Mazdoor Sabha), Ramendra Kumar ( All India Trade Union Congress), DD Ramanandan ( Central Industrial Trade Union) and Kumar Jaimangal Singh alias Anup Singh (Indian National Trade Union Congress) for the meeting.
AITUC senior leader cum JBCCI alternative member Lakhan Lal Mahto confirmed receiving the invitation from the CIL management for negotiation over the strike notice. His union’s representative would participate in it.
All the five national trade unions after a meeting in Ranchi on September 14, served a joint notice to the management of Coal India Limited and SCCL for a three-day strike from October 5 to 7.
All the five national trade unions are peeved that after signing on the NCW XI agreement the CIL paid July and August salaries on the basis of the NCW XI agreement. But now, the CIL management is going to pay September’s salary on the NCW X agreement. The Ministry of Coal has rejected the NCW XI agreement signed between the CIL management and the JBCCI members (national trade unions).
The Jabalpur bench of the MP High Court has rejected the NCW XI agreement on a writ petition of Coal India officers.
