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CITU organises maha dharna for VSP wage hike

VISAKHAPATNAM: The CITU-affiliated Steel Employees’ Union staged a maha dharna in front of the administrative building of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant on Tuesday demanding 24 per cent minimum guaranteed benefit (MGB) and 46 per cent fringe benefit to the VSP workers.

Activists from TNTUC, DITU, USE, VSMS and VUSS also took part in the daylong dharna while other unions abstained.

When the Visakha Steel Workers Union (VSWU) gave the call for one-day strike on November 4, all the unions supported it.

CITU, AITUC and few other unions form part of VSWU, the recognised union of VSP. However, there were differences over wage revision during negotiations by National Joint Committee for Steel Industries, INTUC, AITUC and HMS had signed the memorandum accepting the offer made by the core committee on November 29.

CITU district president A. Ajay Sarma said they had decided to conduct a strike in VSP and steel plants of SAIL on January 5 demanding 24 per cent MGB.

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