Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
More than 3,000 contract labourers and casual workers employed in ACC Cement Factory at the industrial township of Wadi scored a tactical victory after Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Union government) accepted their plea for conciliation with the management on their long-pending demand to be covered under the Cement Wage Board. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner K.V. Subramanian, who held discussions with the office-bearers of the Shramajeevigala Karmika Sangha and representatives of the management of ACC Cement Factory in Bengaluru on March 8, rejected the contention of the factory management that the sangha had no locus standi to take up the issue of the contract labourers and agreed with the contention that the sangha was a registered trade union under the Trade Union Act and that it had locus standi to represent the contract labourers working in the factory.
