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Cashew workers to picket Secretariat on July 12

Staff Reporter

Alleged denial of statutory rights of workers in Kollam

KOLLAM: Workers, under the banner of the All Kerala Cashewnut Factory Workers Federation (AKCFWF) will picket the Secretariat on July 12.

At a press conference here on Thursday, federation president N.K. Premachandran, MP, said the main demand of cashew workers was to end the denial of statutory rights by a section of the private sector and to ban the commission processing system.

The Government was conniving at the commission processing system. Though it was just a cosmetic exercise, the recent raid conducted by the Labour Department on a few cashew-processing units had proved that statutory rights were being denied to the workers. Still, the Government was reluctant to take the required steps against those found violating the law in this connection, he said.

Mr. Premachandran said that wage revision had been pending for months and that urgent measures should be taken to effect the due wage revision in the cashew sector.

Although factories under the management of the cooperative sector Cashew Workers Apex Industrial Cooperative Society (Capex) and the public sector Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation (KSCDC) were being kept open, the future of the KSCDC and Capex factories appeared uncertain.

AKCFWF general secretary A.A. Aziz MLA, said that commission processing was a system which had prevailed prior to 1967 and was banned as a result of agitations.

Unfortunately, the United Democratic Front Government was trying to revive that system, he said.

The federation has submitted a charter of nine demands to Chief Minister Oomme Chandy.

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