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The Hindu Bureau
COIMBATORE About 2,000 workers of 7 National Textile Corporation (NTC) mills successful Tamil Nadu person not received the monthly wage for the past 8 months, accidental commercialized national leaders successful Coimbatore.
M. Arumugam, erstwhile Valparai MLA and AITUC leader, said the mills - 5 successful Coimbatore and 2 successful the confederate districts - were closed successful March 2020 erstwhile the COVID pandemic started. The workers received afloat wage from March 2020 to June 2023 pursuing the demands placed by the unions. They were past paid 50 % wage till February. They person not received wage for the past 8 months.
“We are taking respective measures - protests, submitting appeals to the officials and ministers and ineligible action. The workers are without occupation for the past 5 years and without immoderate wage for the past 8 months. Many of them person switched implicit to caller jobs. But, they are frustrated. The officials are saying determination is nary money. We person fixed respective suggestions to reopen the mills,” helium said.
The unions raised a quality with the Regional Labour Commissioner for outgo of afloat wages and helium has referred it to the concern tribunal. The national besides filed a lawsuit successful the Madras High Court 2 years agone demanding reopening of the mills, helium said.
According to HMS person T.S. Rajamani, the workers received 12.5 % of their past received wages arsenic an magnitude for Deepavali. It is said that immoderate of the workers successful Maharashtra received 3 twelvemonth bonus based connected the claims that they submitted, helium said.
