The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : KRL officers put off strike plan

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

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Tamil Nadu

KRL officers put off strike plan

Special Correspondent

KOCHI: The Kochi Refineries Officers Association has put off its plan to go on an indefinite strike from Wednesday morning.

This follows the Oil Sector Officers Association's decision to keep its plan for an all-India indefinite strike in abeyance until mid-July, C. Jayaraman, general secretary of the CROA, told The Hindu. The OSOA's decision is subsequent to the Delhi High Court's directive on Tuesday to the Union Government's Department of Public Enterprises to sort out the issues raised by the OSOA before July 15. All the officers' associations in the public sector oil companies have put off their strike plan too.

The OSOA had planned to go on a nation-wide strike to press its demand for revision of salaries and other compensations. The revision, the association said, was due in 2002, but the Department of Public Enterprises had been unwilling to allow the revision. The association had complained that the low salaries in the public-sector oil companies compared to the fat pay cheques offered by the private-sector companies had led to a brain drain in the oil PSUs.

It is learnt that a couple of units at the Kochi Refineries Limited (KRL) had started cooling down operations ahead of the beginning of the Wednesday strike, but following the deferring of the strike plan the units have resumed operations.

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