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Port workers serve strike notice

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CHENNAI: Three major trade unions — INTUC, AITUC and HMS — on Thursday served a strike notice to the Chennai Port Trust administration stating that the workers belonging to their unions would go on an indefinite strike from September 1 if their demands were not conceded before August 30.

At a meeting in front of the Chennai Port Trust office here, trade union leaders said that the workers’ long-pending demands, which included raise in retirement age to 60, merger of 50 per cent of DA with basic pay, filling all vacant posts and sanction of interim relief of Rs.1,000 per worker, were pending for long. A release from the All-India Port Workers Federation said the notice was issued as per the decision taken by it at its meeting in Mumbai on July 7 and all workers would participate in the strike. G. Kalan, INTUC general secretary, A.M. Gopu of AITUC and G.M. Krishnamurthi of HMS participated.

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